Absolu d’oranger
Absolu d'oranger opens with petitgrain, black currant, bergamot, and lemon — the petitgrain adding a leafy-green, slightly bitter dimension that distinguishes the opening from a straightforward citrus.
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.
- Mossy60
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readAbsolu d'oranger opens with petitgrain, black currant, bergamot, and lemon — the petitgrain adding a leafy-green, slightly bitter dimension that distinguishes the opening from a straightforward citrus. Black currant provides a tart, fruity depth beneath the citrus brightness.
Orange blossom and iris in the heart transition the composition from citrus-green to floral. Orange blossom's honeyed warmth blends with the iris's powdery structure, creating a delicate, cool-warm counterpoint.
Oakmoss, vetiver, and cedar in the base give the dry-down a classic chypre foundation — green-mossy, earthy, and firmly structured. The overall arc from citrus-green through honeyed floral to mossy-woody makes this a genuine chypre exercise, precise and elegant.
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.
