Aqua Celestia Forte
Aqua Celestia Forte opens with a sharpened brightness—petitgrain and mint collide with lime in a way that feels less aquatic than electric.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mint
- Lime
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readAqua Celestia Forte opens with a sharpened brightness—petitgrain and mint collide with lime in a way that feels less aquatic than electric. The citrus here isn't juicy or sweet; it's pared down, almost austere, lifted by mint that reads more herbal than cooling. There's a mineral quality underneath, as if the fragrance is sketching the idea of water rather than drowning you in it.
As it settles, jasmine and mimosa arrive quietly, softening the edges without turning floral in any traditional sense. The musk in the base is clean and slightly soapy, holding everything at arm's length. This is Francis Kurkdjian's signature restraint—precise, polished, almost architectural. It wears close to the skin but projects a sense of immaculate composure, the kind of fragrance that suits someone who prefers understatement to announcement.
Scent twins
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