The Private Collection No 3
Orange, lemon, and grapefruit open in a clean citrus chord — orange providing juicy sweetness, lemon a bright peel, grapefruit a pithy bitter edge.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOrange, lemon, and grapefruit open in a clean citrus chord — orange providing juicy sweetness, lemon a bright peel, grapefruit a pithy bitter edge. The opening reads polished and sparkling, classic cologne-style.
The heart unfolds into a soft floral bouquet. Jasmine adds creamy white-floral warmth, lily of the valley brings a dewy green lift, violet contributes powdery purple sweetness, rose threads pink. The middle reads as a balanced classic floral, neither lush nor sharp.
Sandalwood, cedar, and musk anchor a quiet, clean drydown. Sandalwood smooths the wood, cedar adds dry structure, musk softens the finish. Refined citrus-floral in the older European cologne tradition — daytime, transitional-season, polite.
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.
