Slightly Bitter
Opens cleanly on lemon and grapefruit, the citrus more peel-and-pith than juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fresh60
- Aromatic50
- Citrus50
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Neroli
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readOpens cleanly on lemon and grapefruit, the citrus more peel-and-pith than juice. There is an immediate herbaceous turn from the fruit itself that justifies the name, with rind oils giving the first minutes their bite.
Neroli arrives quickly in the heart, softening the sharpness but never sweetening it. The composition stays linear and translucent, the floral acting more like a green-citrus extender than a true blossom statement.
Vetiver in the base provides a quiet, slightly smoky earthiness that grounds the citrus without warming it. The overall effect is bright, dry and a little austere, holding close to the skin within an hour or two and reading more like a refined cologne than an evening fragrance.
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.