Habit Rouge l'Instinct
Grapefruit and bergamot supply a sharp, slightly bitter opening — citrus that holds its edge longer than usual before warming into the base.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Leather85
- Vanilla55
- Patchouli50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Leather
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot supply a sharp, slightly bitter opening — citrus that holds its edge longer than usual before warming into the base. There's almost no floral middle; the composition moves from top notes directly into a leather-vanilla drydown.
The base does most of the work: leather first, with vanilla rounding its rougher edges and patchouli giving it earth. A trace of rose flickers through the heat. The arc is short and decisive — citrus, then a slow warm leather that lingers longest. Reads as a more concentrated, more linear take on the line's classic citrus-leather formula. Cool-weather, after-dark.
Scent twins
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