Sine Die
Sine Die opens with grapefruit's characteristic sharp-sweet bitterness, complicated immediately by fig — not the cloying fig-jam sweetness of lesser compositions, but something closer to the milky-green sap of a freshly snapped fig branch.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Leather60
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Fig
- Leather
- Violet
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readSine Die opens with grapefruit's characteristic sharp-sweet bitterness, complicated immediately by fig — not the cloying fig-jam sweetness of lesser compositions, but something closer to the milky-green sap of a freshly snapped fig branch. The contrast is deliberate: tart citrus against green-lactonic warmth. The opening registers as sharp and slightly strange in the best way.
In the heart, the fragrance pivots hard: leather enters with real presence, dry and slightly austere, while violet softens the edges with its powdery, watery quality. Amber holds the base with quiet warmth. The movement from green-citrus to leather-violet is abrupt enough to feel like two separate fragrances pressed together — which, for a niche house, is likely the point.
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.
