Carte Blanche
Lime opens Carte Blanche with a tart, almost bitter green edge that slices through the sweeter orange and lemon, creating a mouth-watering citrus accord that feels like crushed leaves still clinging to the zest.
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.
- Mossy70
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Orange
- Lemon
- Black Currant
- Moss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLime opens Carte Blanche with a tart, almost bitter green edge that slices through the sweeter orange and lemon, creating a mouth-watering citrus accord that feels like crushed leaves still clinging to the zest. Black currant arrives quickly, adding a dark, wine-like tartness that tamps down the initial brightness and introduces a slightly sour fruit skin nuance. Moss and vetiver take over within an hour, wrapping the fading citrus in cool, earthy greens; the vetiver smokes gently while the moss turns the composition damp and forest-floor bitter. Cedar keeps the base dry and clean, preventing the labdanum from turning gooey, so the dry-down stays crisp, like twigs snapped in humid air. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours then pulls closer, making it an easy daytime option for cool spring or early fall offices.
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.
