Blue Sapphire
Apple and lemon create a crisp, slightly sour-green opening that feels more orchard than candy.
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.
- Herbal60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Marine
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Mint
- Lemon
- Clary Sage
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readApple and lemon create a crisp, slightly sour-green opening that feels more orchard than candy. Mint slices through the fruit, giving a cool leafy edge that keeps the top airy rather than sweet. Clary sage arrives quickly, its bittersweet herbal tone pulling the fruit toward a dry aromatic heart and muting any residual sugar. Patchouli dominates the base, supplying dark, camphoraceous earth that swallows the aromatics and leaves a woody-green haze with modest projection. The wear is linear: after twenty minutes the bright top is gone, leaving a cool sage-patchouli skin scent that stays close for several hours. Office-friendly in spring and early fall, it performs best in mild weather where its quiet earthiness won’t overheat.
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.
