Note de Yuzu
Note de Yuzu strips the premise down to almost nothing—a burst of yuzu and lemon that's tart and sun-dried rather than sugary, paired with sea salt and white musk that barely constitute a structure.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Lemon70
- Musk50
- Marine40
- Orange30
- Ozonic30
By the editors · 2 min readNote de Yuzu strips the premise down to almost nothing—a burst of yuzu and lemon that's tart and sun-dried rather than sugary, paired with sea salt and white musk that barely constitute a structure. It's less a fragrance than an atmosphere: the smell of a window left open in a coastal kitchen, citrus rinds drying on a sill.
The salt reads as mineral rather than marine, pinching the yuzu's fruit-acid edge rather than softening it. The musk base is bone-dry and nearly imperceptible. Longevity is limited by design—this is a transparent, moment-in-time kind of scent. The restraint is the point: Heeley made something that smells like the idea of freshness, not a reconstruction of it.
