Orange Butterflies
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash of crushed twig and citrus leaf, immediately joined by mandarin that sweetens the angle without turning sugary.
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
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash of crushed twig and citrus leaf, immediately joined by mandarin that sweetens the angle without turning sugary. Neroli arrives within minutes, folding its cool, faintly metallic orange-flower water aspect into the still-crisp petitgrain, extending the green top note rather than replacing it. Orange blossom emerges in the heart, adding a clean, waxy white-floral lift that keeps the composition airy; the trio of orange materials stays locked in parallel, none dominating, creating a continuous neroli-petitgrain haze. The dry-down is linear: the mandarin recedes, leaving a soft, soap-rinsed neroli skin scent that feels like linen dried in a breeze. Projection stays polite, a one-arm-radius citrus veil ideal for warm spring mornings or office days when you want freshness without projection.
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.