Najdia in Gold
Grapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter peel brightness that quickly folds into guaiac wood's smoky, pencil-shaving dryness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Mossy80
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Guaiac Wood
- Patchouli
- Oakmoss
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter peel brightness that quickly folds into guaiac wood's smoky, pencil-shaving dryness. The heart layers patchouli's earthy chocolate facets underneath, creating a cool, dusky shadow that mutes the citrus top without erasing it. Oakmoss creeps in early, adding a briny, slate-green minerality that clings to skin like wet stone, while ambergris supplies a low-tide salt-skin warmth that keeps the base from turning dusty. Wear is linear: the grapefruit recedes to a whisper within ninety minutes, leaving a dry, marine-tinged wood accord that stays close but persistent. Projection is office-safe, sillage arm-length for three hours then skin-bound; best in cool spring or fall weather when the mossy saltiness can breathe without heat amplifying the sour edge.
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.