Eau Sauvage Cologne
Eau Sauvage Cologne opens with the bright snap of grapefruit, cutting through with a citrus clarity that feels both bracing and clean.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Citrus70
- Earthy65
- Green55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Petitgrain
- Pink Pepper
- Galbanum
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readEau Sauvage Cologne opens with the bright snap of grapefruit, cutting through with a citrus clarity that feels both bracing and clean. The petitgrain arrives quickly, carrying its slightly bitter green edge alongside the prickling warmth of pink pepper. There's a resinous sharpness from galbanum that keeps the composition from drifting into soft territory.
As it settles, the vetiver emerges as a grassy, earthy anchor—less smoky than in many interpretations, more focused on its natural greenness. The overall effect is transparent and streamlined, a cologne in the classical sense but with modern proportions. It wears close and doesn't shout, making it suitable for warm weather or situations where restraint matters more than projection. The kind of fragrance that suggests someone who values clarity over complication.
Scent twins
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