Osmanthus Cologne
Petitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash that slices through the fuzzy sweetness of white peach, creating an immediate citrus-floral tension.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash that slices through the fuzzy sweetness of white peach, creating an immediate citrus-floral tension. The heart folds orange blossom’s soap-clean radiance around osmanthus, letting the blossom’s apricot-leather nuance ride on the petals instead of dominating them. Within twenty minutes the peach retreats, leaving the osmanthus to soften the neroli-like brightness into a skin-hugging veil that smells like dried apricot pressed between linen sheets. Projection drops to intimate range by the second hour, where a whisper of petitgrain lingers to keep the composition from turning purely creamy. Lightweight and office-friendly, it performs best in spring and early-summer warmth, needing reapplication after four hours.
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.
