K by Dolce Gabbana Eau de Parfum
The opening strikes a clean, sun-warmed balance: blood orange and lemon offer brightness without turning sweet, while cardamom adds a quiet spice that feels more like linen dried outdoors than anything culinary.
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.
- Lavender45
- Orange40
- Vetiver40
- Cedar35
- Lemon35
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes a clean, sun-warmed balance: blood orange and lemon offer brightness without turning sweet, while cardamom adds a quiet spice that feels more like linen dried outdoors than anything culinary. It's immediately wearable but not predictable.
As it settles, lavender and clary sage take over with an herbal coolness that leans aromatic rather than soapy. The lavender isn't the drowsy kind found in bedtime blends—it's sharper, almost medicinal in the best sense, grounded by sage's slightly bitter greenness. The transition from citrus to these cooler herbs happens smoothly, never abrupt.
The base brings vetiver, cedar, and patchouli into a woody finish that stays close to the skin. It's clean and structured without feeling austere, the kind of scent that works equally well in a pressed shirt or weekend cashmere. This is contemporary freshness for someone who finds typical citrus colognes too fleeting and fougères too formal.
