Gajah Mada
Blood orange opens with fragrance with a sharp, almost metallic zest that quickly warms into a pulpy sweetness.
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.
- Citrus70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
- Plum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens with fragrance with a sharp, almost metallic zest that quickly warms into a pulpy sweetness. The heart stays quiet, letting the fruit collapse directly onto sandalwood whose creamy grain softens the citric edges while picking up a faint purple tint from plum. Benzoin folds in a translucent caramel glaze that keeps patchouli’s earthiness polite rather than muddy, so the base feels like polished hardwood lacquered with orange-infused honey. Over three hours the blood orange fades to a skin-speckled brightness, leaving a clean, lightly resinous wood accord that stays close and lightly sweet. Projection sits at arm’s length; best for casual spring days or an office where citrus freshness is welcome without volume.
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.
