Terrasse à St-Germain
Grapefruit opens tart and lightly bitter, more pith than juice, with a brief sparkle that sets a clean cologne tone.
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.
- Fresh60
- Aromatic50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens tart and lightly bitter, more pith than juice, with a brief sparkle that sets a clean cologne tone. There's no sweetness in the entry to soften the edge.
Freesia carries the heart by itself — slightly green, watery-floral, with a faint peppery hum. The single-note middle keeps the composition transparent and breathable, almost a sketch rather than a full bouquet, which fits the daytime-cologne posture.
Sandalwood, patchouli, and musk close in a soft woody-earthy register, sandalwood milky-warm, patchouli on the cleaner contemporary side, musk extending everything skin-close. The overall character is a fresh-citrus floral with a quiet woody base — close-wearing, near-linear after the opening, suits warm-weather daytime, casual office wear, and unhurried café contexts.
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.
