Steamed Rainbow
Orange opens bright and brief, a citrus snap that vanishes quickly into the green-aromatic register that follows.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Cedar
- Grass
- Vetiver
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readOrange opens bright and brief, a citrus snap that vanishes quickly into the green-aromatic register that follows. The opening reads more accent than feature.
Cedar and grass build the heart into a clean, slightly damp green-wood middle. Grass adds an unusual freshly-cut quality, while cedar's pencil-shaving dryness keeps things from feeling overtly herbaceous. The combination reads almost like a botanical garden after rain.
Vetiver and violet close the composition with an earthy-powdered drydown—vetiver providing the dry, slightly smoky base while violet adds a soft, candied-leaf quality. Overall the arc is green-aromatic-vetiver with a violet accent. Warm-weather casual rotation, projection close to skin, leaning quietly natural-feeling.
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.
