Nuit D'Issey Austral Expedition 2015
Lime, grapefruit, and mint snap open with a green-citrus brightness that reads like a cold towel on a hot afternoon.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Leather50
- Lavender40
- Amber25
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lime
- Coriander
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Leather
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readLime, grapefruit, and mint snap open with a green-citrus brightness that reads like a cold towel on a hot afternoon. Coriander and lemon stay in the same register — herbal, sharp, faintly soapy. The heart shifts into something stranger: gentian gives a bitter root quality, lavender stays clean rather than aromatic, and a thread of leather pushes the composition into more assertive territory. Geranium pulls everything tighter with its rose-mineral edge. The dry-down is built on coumarin's hay-sweet warmth, vetiver's dry grass, and amberwood's smooth resinous floor. The result wears more grown-up than the citrusy opening would suggest, with the leather giving it weight after the herbs burn off.
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.