Windows Down
Windows Down opens with a bright collision of bergamot, neroli, and grapefruit — sunlit and slightly bitter, the kind of citrus that feels genuinely fresh rather than synthetic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Orange Blossom
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readWindows Down opens with a bright collision of bergamot, neroli, and grapefruit — sunlit and slightly bitter, the kind of citrus that feels genuinely fresh rather than synthetic. Orange blossom enters the heart with a creamy, white-floral softness that smooths the sharper citrus edges without smothering them.
Guaiac wood and oakmoss anchor the base with a dry, slightly smoky woodiness, giving the composition more structure than its breezy top would suggest. The musk stays clean throughout.
Overall, this reads as an easy warm-weather fragrance — citrus-forward with just enough floral and woody depth to avoid feeling fleeting. It projects softly and feels appropriate for daytime wear in warm conditions.
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.
