Like a Trip to New York
Grapefruit opens bright and slightly bitter, its citrus oil sheen sharpened by cardamom’s cool, peppery spice.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Amber
- Cedar
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens bright and slightly bitter, its citrus oil sheen sharpened by cardamom’s cool, peppery spice. The heart slides into a clean, dewy rose that keeps the grapefruit’s lift while adding a soft floral cushion. Amber seeps up early, warming the rose and turning the composition gently sweet and resinous, while cedar provides a dry, pencil-shaving wood base that keeps the sweetness airy rather than syrupy. On skin the grapefruit fades within an hour, leaving a rosy-amber glow edged with clean wood, projecting no more than arm’s length yet persistent for a workday. Spring through early fall office wear feels natural; the cardamom and cedar stop it from turning cloying in humidity.
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.
