Berlin
Lemon and grapefruit open with a crisp, slightly bitter citrus character — grapefruit providing the sharper edge while lemon keeps it familiar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Black Pepper
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and grapefruit open with a crisp, slightly bitter citrus character — grapefruit providing the sharper edge while lemon keeps it familiar. The opening is transparent and dry rather than sweet.
Black pepper enters quickly and takes a prominent role, pushing the composition into fresh-spicy territory with a faceted, almost fizzing quality. It reads more architectural than decorative — the kind of pepper that shapes the whole fragrance rather than merely accenting it.
Cedar and patchouli close things out, adding earthy dryness and a woody-dark underpinning. The patchouli is restrained rather than dominant, lending depth without shifting the balance toward the oriental. Clean, direct, and well-defined — this wears as an urban citrus-spice with staying power.
Scent twins
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