L'Echappee Belle
Grapefruit snaps open with a bitter-citrus flash that cardamom instantly warms into a peppery-green sparkle, bergamot lending a brief metallic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Citrus70
- Floral60
- Fruity60
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Apricot
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit snaps open with a bitter-citrus flash that cardamom instantly warms into a peppery-green sparkle, bergamot lending a brief metallic edge. The heart trades brightness for velvety osmanthus, its apricot skin nuance folding into fuzzy freesia while a ghost of jasmine adds airy white petals, creating a lactonic floral-fruit haze. Sandalwood arrives early, smoothing the transition with creamy wood that drinks the osmanthus jam until only a blond-wood skin scent remains. Projection hovers at arm’s length for three hours, then settles into whisper-close musk, perfect for warm spring weekends or humid summer cafés.
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.
