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Grapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter citrus edge that immediately establishes a bright, zesty character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Oakmoss
- Guaiac Wood
- Ambergris
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter citrus edge that immediately establishes a bright, zesty character. Jasmine enters quickly, softening the citric snap with a clean white-floral creaminess that keeps the scent airy rather than sweet. Oakmoss and guaiac wood ground the heart, supplying a dry, smoky-woody backbone that tilts the composition toward a classic masculine chypre structure. Ambergris adds a subtle marine saltiness through the dry-down, while patchouli contributes an earthy, dark leaf accent that lengthens the moss-wood accord. The result feels like a crisp coastal breeze sliced through with sun-bleached driftwood and faint floral wash. Projection stays polite, radiating about arm’s length for four hours before settling into a skin-close woody skin scent. Wear it to the office or weekend brunch in spring through early fall when you want effortless freshness without loud sweetness.
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.