Pacific Chill
Pacific Chill opens with a shock of peppermint clarity—bracing, almost medicinal in its intensity—before orange and blackcurrant soften the edges into something between a beach-town juice bar and a herb garden at dawn.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Basil
- Apricot
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readPacific Chill opens with a shock of peppermint clarity—bracing, almost medicinal in its intensity—before orange and blackcurrant soften the edges into something between a beach-town juice bar and a herb garden at dawn. The mint never fully retreats. Instead, it weaves through a heart where basil and apricot create an oddly compelling tension: green and tart against fuzzy sweetness, with rose adding a whisper of formality that keeps the composition from veering into pure vacation mode.
The drydown settles into fig and ambrette, lending a soft, skin-like warmth that grounds all that brightness without weighing it down. This is clearly built for heat—lightweight, fleeting, designed to refresh rather than announce. It reads as deliberate simplicity from a house more often associated with opulence, the kind of fragrance that vanishes by lunch but leaves you feeling momentarily restored. Best suited to those who want fragrance as punctuation rather than proclamation.
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.
