Cocktail
Petitgrain opens sharp, green-bitter and slightly soapy, slicing through lavender’s cool, camphor-edged herbals to create a brisk, barbershop-clean introduction.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens sharp, green-bitter and slightly soapy, slicing through lavender’s cool, camphor-edged herbals to create a brisk, barbershop-clean introduction. The heart folds ylang-ylang’s custard-sweet banana facet beneath jasmine’s indolic pollen and a restrained rose, building a creamy yellow-floral cushion that softens the aromatic snap of the top. Amber and musk arrive early, warming the florals with a honeyed, skin-salt glaze so the scent never drifts but stays close, like linen warmed by sunlight. During dry-down the lavender lingers longest, its metallic stalk threading the amber into a powdery, slightly talc finish that stays polite on collar or cuff. Projection remains conversational, best suited to spring office days or a linen-suited garden brunch, fading to skin within five hours.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
