Black Forest
Grapefruit opens brisk and slightly bitter, its citrus oils shearing across the top like chilled zest.
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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.
- Patchouli80
- Woody70
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Patchouli
- Mysore Sandalwood
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens brisk and slightly bitter, its citrus oils shearing across the top like chilled zest. Within minutes patchouli muscles in, bringing a camphor-brown earthiness that swallows the brightness and sets a dusky tone. Mysore sandalwood then layers creamy, buttery wood beneath the patchouli, while labdanum leaks warm, leathery amber that sticks to the skin like pine sap. The scent keeps moving: citrus shadow, earthy middle, resinous base, never fully sweet, always a little rugged. Projection stays close but persistent, a quiet forest-floor aura perfect for cool days and unhurried weekends.
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.
