Imagine
Grapefruit and bergamot open with a tart, juicy snap that feels like peeling the fruit under bright light.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Rose
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open with a tart, juicy snap that feels like peeling the fruit under bright light. Cardamom slips in within minutes, dusting the citrus with a cool-green spice that steers the scent away from simple cologne territory. Violet leaf rises next, adding a faint metallic-green shading that mutes the rose’s sweetness, so the heart smells more like crushed petals on wet pavement than a florist’s counter. Vetiver anchors everything with a dry, rooty hum that lengthens the citrus without adding sugar or smoke, keeping the profile crisp through the afternoon. Projection stays polite, a handshake’s reach, making it office-safe yet still recognisably aromatic. Best worn spring through early fall when you want quiet freshness with a twist of spice.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
