Granville
Granville opens with lemon and mandarin cut through with thyme — a Normandy clifftop in summer, the air carrying herb and citrus peel simultaneously.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
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- Green
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Thyme
- Mandarin
- Gorse
- Rosemary
- Thyme
- Pine Needles
By the editors · 2 min readGranville opens with lemon and mandarin cut through with thyme — a Normandy clifftop in summer, the air carrying herb and citrus peel simultaneously. The composition is named for Dior's birthplace on the Norman coast, and it earns the reference: there is something genuinely coastal and scrubby about the way rosemary and pine needles dominate the heart alongside gorse, the low yellow-flowering shrub endemic to that landscape.
Black pepper, sandalwood, and a whisper of oakmoss in the base anchor the composition without overwhelming it. Granville belongs to the La Collection Couturier Parfumeur series — intentionally austere, built for people who consider modesty a form of confidence.
Scent twins
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