Paradis Perdu
Lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot strike a sharp citrus chord at the opening, with bitter rind and grapefruit's sulfuric tang lending bite.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Vetiver
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readLemon, grapefruit, and bergamot strike a sharp citrus chord at the opening, with bitter rind and grapefruit's sulfuric tang lending bite. The brightness is immediate and uncomplicated.
Basil and galbanum take the heart into firmly green territory — the basil herbal-anise, the galbanum stalky and slightly resinous — while vetiver introduces its rooty, smoky undertone early. The base lingers in damp moss, rosewood, cedar, and labdanum, the labdanum adding a faint sweet-resin warmth that softens the otherwise dry, woody finish. Musk closes everything down to skin.
Overall a green-citrus chypre with vetiver depth. Suited to spring and summer, daytime wear, casual to office settings.
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.
