The Smart Set
Grapefruit snaps open with a bitter-pith edge that bergamot softens into a cool citrus flash.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Woody70
- Citrus60
- Earthy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Plum
- Cedar
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit snaps open with a bitter-pith edge that bergamot softens into a cool citrus flash. Plum swells in the heart, its jammy sweetness cut by dry cedar shavings that keep the fruit from turning syrupy. Vetiver and patchouli ground the base in earthy crunch, while a discreet coffee bean adds roasted bitterness that dries the woods rather than sweetening them. Over two hours the citrus retreats, leaving a muted cedar-vetiver ribbon dusted with coffee grounds and a whisper of plum skin. Projection stays office-close, stretching an arm’s length for about four hours before settling to skin. The composition reads brisk and woody-earthy, suited to collar-up spring mornings or cool summer travel days when you want freshness without aquatic clichés.
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.