Guess Night
Grapefruit opens with mild citrus tartness before being absorbed quickly by the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
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- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Virginia Cedar
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with mild citrus tartness before being absorbed quickly by the heart. Cedar and vetiver take over — dry, slightly smoky, with vetiver's earthy grassiness sitting beneath cedar's pencil-shaving sharpness.
Labdanum and patchouli enter the base together, deepening the earthy quality with resinous warmth. Vanilla prevents the composition from going too austere, softening the labdanum's leathery edge without turning sweet.
The result is an earthy, woody masculine that leans dark and slightly resinous. Patchouli is present but restrained enough not to overwhelm. It carries itself best in cooler weather, where its depth reads as grounding rather than heavy.
Scent twins
In this family
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