Reveal
Reveal opens on orange blossom and grapefruit — an immediate brightness with white-floral sweetness underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Grapefruit
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readReveal opens on orange blossom and grapefruit — an immediate brightness with white-floral sweetness underneath. The grapefruit adds a tart edge that stops the orange blossom from tipping into indulgence.
Vetiver in the heart is an unusual mid-stage choice: it pulls the composition earthward earlier than expected, introducing a dry, woody-green quality that stands in interesting tension with the floral opening.
Benzoin and cedar finish the journey, the benzoin adding a soft balsamic sweetness that smooths over the vetiver's sharpness. The overall arc — from bright citrus-floral to earthy-balsamic — is unconventional and more interesting than the ingredient list suggests. A fragrance with quiet ambition.
Scent twins
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