Sweet Xplosion
Lime and grapefruit open with a tart, fizzy brightness that feels deliberately casual before things shift quickly underground.
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.
- Honey50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLime and grapefruit open with a tart, fizzy brightness that feels deliberately casual before things shift quickly underground. Ylang-ylang adds a waxy, slightly tropical floral edge in the middle, though it stays restrained against the richness building below.
The base drives everything: tonka bean and vanilla create a dense sweetness, benzoin layers in a resinous warmth, and coffee grounds the whole thing with a dry, roasted bitterness. Patchouli and musk add depth without tipping into darkness.
The result is a gourmand-forward composition where the citrus top feels like a brief breath of fresh air before a heavy, dessert-like warmth takes over. Sits close to skin but leaves a persistent trail.
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.
