Eau d'Hadrien Hadrien Absolu Goutal 1988 Eau de Parfum
A clean, tart opening built around grapefruit and bergamot — the citrus is bright and slightly bitter rather than sweet, with enough lift to feel more like a squeeze of fresh peel than a polished accord.
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.
- Citrus90
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Sicilian Lemon
- Bergamot
- Citron
- Juniper Berry
By the editors · 2 min readA clean, tart opening built around grapefruit and bergamot — the citrus is bright and slightly bitter rather than sweet, with enough lift to feel more like a squeeze of fresh peel than a polished accord.
As the citrus fades, ylang-ylang emerges beneath it, adding a faintly tropical, slightly rubbery floral warmth that keeps the fragrance from reading as purely clean. Musk settles underneath, quiet and skin-close.
The result is a light, transparent fragrance that sits close to the body. The ylang-ylang prevents it from being strictly a citrus cologne, giving the dry-down a soft, vaguely heady character without pulling it into full floral territory.
Scent twins
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