Néroli
A bitter-orange cologne that takes the citrus down to its bark.
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
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Cypress
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readA bitter-orange cologne that takes the citrus down to its bark. Petitgrain and bergamot open with the chewed-leaf bitterness of orange branches in the sun, more aromatic than juicy, more edge than pulp.
The heart turns toward neroli's clean indolic hum and orange blossom's softer, milkier sweetness — still firmly in the citrus family but warming slightly, like the same tree at noon instead of dawn.
The drydown is dry and light: cypress and cedar give it a thin woody spine, vanilla a barely-there breath of sweetness, musk a clean skin-finish. A short-lived, transparent fragrance that wears like cool linen rather than perfume — a workday cologne or summer commuter.
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.
