Aqua Memorabilis
Grapefruit opens alone with a tart, slightly bitter citrus brightness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Violet75
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Black Pepper
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens alone with a tart, slightly bitter citrus brightness. The single top sets a clean, mineral tone, with grapefruit's sulfurous edge giving the opening more character than a simple bergamot would.
Black pepper and violet carry the heart in an unusual contrast. Black pepper adds dry, fiery spice that cuts against violet's candied-cool softness. The pairing reads sophisticated and quietly tense, with neither note overpowering the other.
Sandalwood, vetiver, amber, and musk finish with a warm, slightly earthy drydown. Vetiver lends a smoky-grassy thread, sandalwood softens, amber sweetens, musk closes intimately. Overall character: a citrus-violet-pepper composition with warm woody underpinnings, suited to cooler-weather office and casual evening wear. Moderate projection, restrained complexity, with a quietly distinctive heart.
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.
