Kajal III
Grapefruit slices open with a tart, slightly bitter zest that immediately reads as crystalline and cool.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Neroli
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit slices open with a tart, slightly bitter zest that immediately reads as crystalline and cool. Within minutes the heart layers ginger heat against lavender’s clean camphor edge, while rosemary adds a pine-needle sharpness that keeps the lavender from turning creamy; neroli hovers quietly, giving the blend a soap-like lift rather than floral sweetness. The base folds ambroxan’s mineral glow around a muted amber cushion, letting patchouli deliver a dry, cocoa-brown earthiness that reins in the early freshness. As the skin warms, ginger recedes and the accord softens to a woody-musky skin halo with a faint salt trace. Projection stays polite, extending an arm’s length for the first three hours before settling into a sheer, fresh-spicy aura. Office-safe year-round, it performs best in mild weather when its aromatic spine can breathe without being steamed by heat or buried under wool.
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.




