Centaure
Petitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash, its citrus twig sharpened by lemon while cool mint lifts the accord into airy brightness.
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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Mint
- Lemon
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Black Currant
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain snaps open with a bitter-green flash, its citrus twig sharpened by lemon while cool mint lifts the accord into airy brightness. Lavender soon dominates, pushing the neroli-jasmine pairing into a soapy, almost metallic floral heart that the black-currant bud tinges with tart catty green. Vetiver and oakmoss knit a dry, earthy spine that reins in the citrus top, preventing the flowers from turning creamy. Tobacco arrives late, not sweet but cured-leaf dry, wrapping the herbs in faint smoke while clean musk shears away any heaviness. Projection stays office-polite for six hours, then lingers as a moss-skin tattoo perfect for collar days when you want barbershop polish without sugar.
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.
