L'Eau de Tarocco
Blood orange leads with that signature dark-citrus juiciness, deeper and slightly bitter compared to plain orange, with grapefruit lending a tarter brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange leads with that signature dark-citrus juiciness, deeper and slightly bitter compared to plain orange, with grapefruit lending a tarter brightness. The opening is luminous and unmistakable.
Ginger, cinnamon, and saffron warm the middle without weighing it down, the saffron leathery-bitter, the cinnamon dry, the ginger fresh-fizzy. Orange blossom and rose lift the spice with a soft floral sparkle, keeping the citrus character alive into the heart rather than letting it die at the top.
Frankincense, cedar, and musk close it out clean and slightly resinous, the incense lending a quiet smokiness rather than thickness. The whole composition reads like winter sun on a dressed-up cologne — bright, warm, daytime-friendly across most seasons.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
