Les Nombres d'Or - Eau Absolue
Petitgrain opens with a twig-green bitterness that feels like crushed leaves still holding their sap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Amber70
- Balsamic60
- Woody60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mandarin
- Vetiver
- Haitian Vetiver
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a twig-green bitterness that feels like crushed leaves still holding their sap. Labdanum arrives early, folding its resinous amber warmth around the citrus twang, turning the scent from bright to dusky within minutes. Virginia cedar adds dry, pencil-shaving wood that keeps the amber from becoming syrupy, while a clean white musk sheen smooths the splinters and lingers close to skin. The heart is missing, so the trip is short: top collapses into base without intermediate florals, leaving a woody-amber skin glow that stays transparent. Projection sits at arm’s length for three hours, then becomes a skin whisper perfect for cool spring office days.
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.
