L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Summer 2015
Grapefruit slashes open with a tart, almost bitter pith that feels like chilled citrus rind snapped in half.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Tropical80
- Citrus70
- Fruity60
- Fresh Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Pineapple
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit slashes open with a tart, almost bitter pith that feels like chilled citrus rind snapped in half. Within minutes pineapple arrives, juicy and slightly candied, riding on nutmeg’s soft brown warmth so the fruit never turns syrupy. Vetiver anchors the base, its dry grassiness filtering the sweetness into something sun-bleached and salt-sprayed, extending the tropical cue without coconut cream clichés. The heart stays crisp, a green pineapple spear rather than a piña colada, while the nutmeg keeps the breeze aromatic rather than dessert-like. Sillage radiates only an arm’s length, making it an easy refresher for hot days when you want fruit without stickiness. Expect four-to-six hours on skin, perfect for post-gym cooldown or outdoor brunch when thermometers climb.
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.
