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Grapefruit snaps open with bitter pith and chilled zest, its sour sparkle cutting straight through humid air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Vetiver
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit snaps open with bitter pith and chilled zest, its sour sparkle cutting straight through humid air. Vetiver storms the heart, dragging earthy, rooty smoke that tangles with cardamom’s peppery green bite, while violet leaf adds a crushed-stem metallic coolness that keeps the heart crisp rather than sweet. Sandalwood and cedar plank the base with dry, blond wood that drinks the grapefruit oils and stretches them into a clean, persistent hum, musk adding only a skin-close wash rather than plush weight. The scent stays linear: citrus top slides directly onto woody musk, the spices merely flickering along the seam. Projection holds at arm’s length for roughly six hours, then collapses to a cedar-grapefruit skin whisper that reads shower-fresh rather than perfumed. Bright, brisk, office-friendly; best in spring and summer heat, casual days, post-gym travel spritz.
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.