Acqua di Colonia
The opening bursts with bergamot, lemon, and petitgrain — clean and sharp, with petitgrain providing a slightly woody, bitter-green edge that keeps the citrus from reading as juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Lavender75
- Herbal70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bursts with bergamot, lemon, and petitgrain — clean and sharp, with petitgrain providing a slightly woody, bitter-green edge that keeps the citrus from reading as juice. Lavender enters almost simultaneously, pulling the composition toward the aromatic tradition rather than the purely fresh one.
Sage and clary sage add a herbal dryness in the heart, while clove delivers a quiet, warm punctuation without dominating. Rosemary in the base reinforces the medicinal-herb quality and grounds the lighter top elements.
The overall impression is a structured citrus-aromatic cologne — dry rather than sweet, with enough herbal character to feel genuinely botanical. It wears clean and relatively brief.
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.
