L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Summer 2013
Grapefruit opens cold and zesty — the bitter, slightly sulfurous edge that grapefruit brings when used in a summer flanker, more peel than juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
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The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Pineapple
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens cold and zesty — the bitter, slightly sulfurous edge that grapefruit brings when used in a summer flanker, more peel than juice. There's no slow build; the citrus hits first and stays out front.
Pineapple and nutmeg fill in the heart, the pineapple pulling tropical-fruit sweetness while the nutmeg dries it back out with a warm spice rasp. The combination keeps the composition from reading as a one-trick citrus splash, lending some interior contrast without darkening it.
Vetiver in the base provides the only real depth — green, slightly rooty, moderately earthy — keeping the dry-down from going flat. The structure is straightforward and warm-weather oriented, an easy-going summer cologne in the masculine aquatic-aromatic family. Skin-close longevity, light sillage.
Scent twins
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