A Contre Jour
Melon opens watery and slightly green, its aqueous sugar cutting the tart snap of black-currant bud for a bright, almost cucumber-like lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Aquatic50
- Rose50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Black Currant
- Pineapple
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Freesia
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readMelon opens watery and slightly green, its aqueous sugar cutting the tart snap of black-currant bud for a bright, almost cucumber-like lift. Within minutes pineapple arrives, juicy and slightly candied, stitching the fruits to a heart where jasmine and freesia add transparent white petals while plum deepens the syrup without turning jammy. Rose keeps the bouquet airy, preventing the sugars from cloying. As the fruits retreat, sandalwood and Virginia cedar lay down pale, dry wood that lets iris powder the base into a clean, cosmetic hush; amber quietly warms the skin, never overtly sweet. The scent stays close, a soft fruity-wood skin aura that reads shower-fresh rather than dessert. Projection remains polite—arm’s-length for three hours—then settles into laundered cotton. Work-safe in spring and summer, it survives humidity without turning loud.
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.
