Scusami
Scusami opens with citrus — bergamot and grapefruit — alongside heliotrope, creating a powdery-fresh effect rather than a sharp zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Heliotrope
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readScusami opens with citrus — bergamot and grapefruit — alongside heliotrope, creating a powdery-fresh effect rather than a sharp zest. Patchouli and sandalwood are already detectable from the start, giving the composition more density than a typical citrus opening.
The floral heart of ylang-ylang, lily of the valley, freesia, and rose reads as diffuse and luminous rather than bold, wrapped in an ambient aldehydic softness from heliotrope. Ambrette and musk in the base push it toward a skin-close warmth in the dry-down. The finished accord is a soft, slightly powdery floral anchored by woody-earthy depth — transparent in texture but layered in construction.
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.
