L'Eau de l'Eau
A bright trio of petitgrain, lemon, and grapefruit kicks things off with a peeled, slightly bitter freshness rather than a sugary citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Citrus60
- Aromatic55
- Lavender45
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readA bright trio of petitgrain, lemon, and grapefruit kicks things off with a peeled, slightly bitter freshness rather than a sugary citrus. Pink pepper and ginger add a tingling lift almost immediately.
The heart is the surprising pivot: lavender meets cinnamon and clove, with orange blossom softening the spice and giving the cologne structure an unexpected warmth. It reads aromatic and quietly herbal rather than gourmand.
In the dry-down, tonka bean and benzoin add a soft, balsamic sweetness while patchouli grounds the whole thing in something earthier. Best in warm weather but with enough body to carry into cooler evenings, it stays close after the first hour.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
