Lux
Petitgrain crackles open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into creamy Mysore sandalwood, the wood’s milky sweetness amplified rather than challenged by the citrus leaf.
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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.
- Woody90
- Amber70
- Musky60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mysore Sandalwood
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain crackles open with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into creamy Mysore sandalwood, the wood’s milky sweetness amplified rather than challenged by the citrus leaf. In the heart the sandalwood dominates, its buttery lactones marrying with a dry, honeyed amber to create a seamless woody-amber accord that smells like warm skin after sun exposure. The musk base slips in quietly, extending the wood’s pale glow and adding a clean, salt-tinged intimacy that keeps the composition from turning sugary. Over hours the opening green snap recedes, leaving a soft, smoke-veiled sandalwood that hovers close to the body yet persists on fabric well into the next morning. Projection stays reserved—arm-length at most—making it ideal for office or travel in cool-to-cold weather when you want quiet polish rather than announcement.
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.
