Geranium Odorata
Geranium Odorata opens with the raw, slightly metallic greenness of crushed geranium leaves—not the soft floral facet, but the peppery, astringent edge that catches in your throat.
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.
- Green50
- Fig Leaf35
- Oakmoss30
- Black Pepper25
- Rosemary20
By the editors · 2 min readGeranium Odorata opens with the raw, slightly metallic greenness of crushed geranium leaves—not the soft floral facet, but the peppery, astringent edge that catches in your throat. There's an earthy, almost mossy quality beneath, grounding the sharpness with something damp and forest-floor dark. As it settles, benzoin brings a faint sweetness that rounds the composition without softening its fundamentally austere character.
This is geranium for people who find most geranium fragrances too rosy or polite. It leans masculine in spirit, though not in any conventional sense—more like the scent of hands after gardening, or a linen shirt worn in humid weather. Best suited to those who prefer their green fragrances unvarnished, with a touch of bitterness intact.
