Verveine Cédrat
Lemon opens cleanly — not sharp or synthetic, closer to the zested rind before it softens into blood orange's slightly sweeter, more rounded citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Elemi
- Lemon
- Citron
- Bitter Orange
- Blood Orange
- Verbena
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens cleanly — not sharp or synthetic, closer to the zested rind before it softens into blood orange's slightly sweeter, more rounded citrus. Grapefruit adds a brief bitterness before the musk takes over with very little ceremony. The arc is short and essentially linear: citrus to clean skin.
Works well as a light warm-weather wear or post-shower fragrance, where longevity pressure is low and freshness is the whole point. Uncomplicated construction, pleasant execution.
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.
