Abstraction Raisonnee
Grapefruit peels open with a bitter-sweet snap that instantly folds into jasmine’s creamy pollen, the white petals absorbing the citrus oils while nutmeg injects a dry, dusty heat that feels like warmed spice racks.
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.
- Tobacco80
- Yellow Floral70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Nutmeg
- Benzoin
- Tobacco
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit peels open with a bitter-sweet snap that instantly folds into jasmine’s creamy pollen, the white petals absorbing the citrus oils while nutmeg injects a dry, dusty heat that feels like warmed spice racks. As the floral heart settles, benzoin pours a dark, resinous molasses that flattens the jasmine into a leathery bloom, preparing the runway for tobacco’s late entrance. The leaf emerges slowly, first as a moist, green hay, then curing into a honeyed, almost candied smoke that clings to skin like the memory of last night’s jacket. Projection stays within handshake range for six hours, tilting the balance between clean brightness and smoky skin, making it an easy reach for cool spring offices or after-work terraces when you want polish without shouting.
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.
