Bendelirious
Grapefruit opens sharp and a little sulfurous, the bitter-pith side rather than the juicy side.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Leather70
- Iris60
- Violet50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens sharp and a little sulfurous, the bitter-pith side rather than the juicy side. Violet leaf cuts in almost immediately with a green, cucumber-cool snap, then iris arrives cool and metallic, its powder dry rather than cosmetic.
The transition into the base is the most interesting move — leather creeps up gradually under the iris, smoky and slightly raw, with vetiver dragging in earth and tonka softening the edges with a faint sweet hum. Musk diffuses the whole thing into a quiet halo. Projection stays close, the texture suede-soft after the first hour, and the overall arc reads as a study in green-grey coolness brushing against warm leather.
A distinctive iris-leather sketch with a faintly perverse citric edge — restrained, not crowd-pleasing.
Scent twins
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