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The grapefruit arrives bright and unadorned, more like the pale flesh of the fruit than its zest—clean citrus without bitterness.
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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readThe grapefruit arrives bright and unadorned, more like the pale flesh of the fruit than its zest—clean citrus without bitterness. It doesn't linger long before jasmine steps forward, soft and pillowy rather than indolic, carrying a faint sweetness that reads almost fruity against the fading citrus.
Vanilla in the base rounds everything into something gauzy and approachable, never thick or gourmand. The whole composition stays sheer, like sunlight filtered through white cotton curtains. It evokes the drowsy, luminous quality of a tropical morning more than any particular place—heat just beginning to build, everything still languid.
Best suited to those who want fragrance to feel like background music rather than a statement. It's the kind of scent that disappears on some skins entirely, persists gently on others, and never demands attention either way.
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.