Orange Bitters
Petitgrain leads with a dry, slightly bitter citrus character — more twig than fruit — with orange adding just enough sweetness to soften it.
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.
- Citrus70
- Patchouli70
- Woody60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Aldehydes
- Orange
- Bitter Orange
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain leads with a dry, slightly bitter citrus character — more twig than fruit — with orange adding just enough sweetness to soften it. The opening feels clean and deliberately spare.
Jasmine enters with moderate weight, skirting the indolic end of its spectrum and tilting toward freshness. Below it, patchouli and papyrus bring earthy, woody dryness that prevents the floral from going soft. Amber adds warmth without sweetness, letting the earthiness do the heavy lifting.
The drydown is where sandalwood rounds things out, wrapping the patchouli in a creamier texture. The overall character is woody-citrus with an earthy underpinning — straightforward and grounded rather than elaborate.
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.
