Un Jour d'Ete
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that drags mandarin oil into dry, woody territory rather than juicy sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Amber
- Lemon
- Mandarin
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash that drags mandarin oil into dry, woody territory rather than juicy sweetness. Lemon adds a sharp metallic edge, preventing the amber from warming too quickly and keeping the top airy and sun-bleached. The heart is quiet: the same petitgrain softens into a soap-clean musk, letting amber’s powdery labdanum facets appear only after thirty minutes, never thick or honeyed. Dry-down stays close to skin, a pale woody-musk with a salt-citrus echo that feels like driftwood dried in hot wind. Projection is modest, a skin-whisper perfect for office days or humid summer walks when you want freshness without announcing it.
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.
