DKNY Women Summer 2014
Pear and grapefruit open crisp and translucent — pear's watery sweetness balanced against grapefruit's pithy bitter edge.
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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Grapefruit
- Magnolia
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPear and grapefruit open crisp and translucent — pear's watery sweetness balanced against grapefruit's pithy bitter edge. The opening reads as a clean fruity-aquatic, brighter than juicy, almost dewy.
Magnolia carries the brief middle. The flower lands somewhere between lemony freshness and creamy white-floral, keeping the composition airy rather than indolic. It's a transparent floral heart, more suggestion than statement.
The base anchors with white musk, sandalwood, and amber: a soft, clean drydown where sandalwood reads as smooth pale wood and amber adds a thin warmth under the musk. A summer-cologne floral — light, daytime, designer-shape, with modest projection and shorter longevity. Wears best in warm, humid weather.
Scent twins
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