Splash - The Grapefruit 2008
Grapefruit opens with a bitter-pith edge that quickly folds into orange blossom's honeyed sweetness, creating a citrus-floral hybrid that feels sunlit rather than sharp.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Freesia
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a bitter-pith edge that quickly folds into orange blossom's honeyed sweetness, creating a citrus-floral hybrid that feels sunlit rather than sharp. Ginger slices through this brightness, lending a peppery heat that prevents the composition from tipping into sugary territory, while freesia adds a watery transparency that keeps the heart airy. Amber and patchouli ground the dry-down, but they arrive lightly—patchouli here is a clean, leaf-dominant fraction that extends the citrus accord rather than weighing it down, and amber provides a soft resinous glow that buffers the musk's skin-close warmth. The result is a fragrance that stays within arm's reach, projecting politely for three hours before settling into a clean musk-amber skin-whisper reminiscent of warm hair. Its low-sillage profile makes it office-safe, yet the ginger lift keeps it interesting through humid summer afternoons.
Scent twins
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