Eau de Givenchy (2018)
The 2018 reissue opens with a bright wash of citrus—petitgrain and neroli leading, with bergamot and lemon sharpening the edges.
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.
- Bergamot35
- Vetiver30
- Lemon30
- Orange25
- Cedar25
By the editors · 2 min readThe 2018 reissue opens with a bright wash of citrus—petitgrain and neroli leading, with bergamot and lemon sharpening the edges. It's clean without being soapy, more garden than bathroom, the kind of transparency that suggests early morning rather than midday heat. The orange blossom stays light, never turning indolic or heavy.
As it settles, vetiver and cedar provide just enough structure to keep the composition from floating away entirely. The musk is pale and soft, barely there. This is citrus cologne stripped to its essentials and given a whisper of staying power, but it remains fundamentally ephemeral.
Best suited to those who want fragrance to be felt rather than announced—a personal ritual more than a statement. It won't project across a room or last through dinner, but that seems intentional. Givenchy positioned this as a return to classic eau de cologne principles: refreshment, simplicity, impermanence.
