Outrecuidant
Pineapple and grapefruit open bright and slightly bitter, the kind of fruit that reads as cocktail rather than compote.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Leather70
- Balsamic60
- Oud60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Grapefruit
- Saffron
- Orange Blossom
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readPineapple and grapefruit open bright and slightly bitter, the kind of fruit that reads as cocktail rather than compote. Saffron, cardamom and orange blossom pull the heart toward something warmer and more incense-adjacent, the citrus burning off into spice.
The base does the heavy lifting: leather and oud anchored by labdanum, sandalwood, cedar and patchouli — a dark, lacquered drydown that reads like polished wood and worn hide. The fruity opening becomes a memory by the second hour, replaced by something more confident and considered. A late-fall fragrance with a Sunday-evening posture.
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.
