Assam & Grapefruit
Grapefruit opens with a bitter-sour sparkle that quickly draws violet into its orbit, creating a cool, powdery citrus halo.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Almond50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Violet
- Cardamom
- Rose
- Almond
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a bitter-sour sparkle that quickly draws violet into its orbit, creating a cool, powdery citrus halo. Cardamom arrives next, pushing a dry, aromatic heat that warms the grapefruit's edges while rose adds a faint, dewy floral lift. The heart phase feels like chilled earl grey: citrus brightness filtered through violet's soft dust and cardamom's peppery snap. As skin heat builds, almond's pale marzipan sweetness merges with patchouli's earthy leaf, turning the earlier chill into a skin-close, nutty-woody hum backed by clean white musk. Projection stays within arm's length for five hours, then settles into a linen-drawer whisper. Office-friendly across spring and summer, it performs best in humid warmth where the grapefruit maintains its tart crackle.
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.
