Like a Walk in the Summer Rain
Lemon and orange create a bright, almost effervescent opening that feels like citrus rind flicked with rainwater.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Lily of the Valley
- Freesia
- Oakmoss
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and orange create a bright, almost effervescent opening that feels like citrus rind flicked with rainwater. The heart pairs lily of the valley's cool green bell-tone with freesia's airy peach nuance, together forming a transparent floral layer that stays crisp rather than sweet. Oakmoss and cedar arrive early, wrapping the florals in a cool, damp-wood accord while marine molecules add a salty, ozone snap that evokes wet pavement. Musk shepherds the composition into skin, keeping projection soft and diffusing the marine-wood contrast into a clean, rain-laundered veil that lingers for hours. Projection stays within arm's length; it reads brightest in humid spring or mild summer days and works for office or weekend errands when you want freshness without obvious cologne swagger.
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.




