L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Shade of Lagoon
Grapefruit and lime open clean and sharp, edged with ginger's warm-rooty zing and cardamom's smoky-green pod-spice — the spice keeping the citrus from going soda-sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Marine60
- Salty55
- Amber45
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Cypress
- Sea Notes
- Galbanum
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and lime open clean and sharp, edged with ginger's warm-rooty zing and cardamom's smoky-green pod-spice — the spice keeping the citrus from going soda-sweet. Sea notes arrive quickly under the top, that cool wet-skin impression rather than full ocean, joined in the heart by cypress, geranium, and galbanum, an unusual trio that pushes the composition into greener and more aromatic territory than most aquatic flankers. The dry-down is where the perfume earns its name: ambroxan smooths everything into a salty-amber base, vetiver runs dry-grassy underneath, cedar holds the structure, and white musk softens the edges. It wears cool and woody-mineral after the citrus burns off, settling close to the skin.
Scent twins
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