Arbre De Nuit Rose
Grapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter citrus edge that slices through humid air.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Tuberose50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Orange Blossom
- Patchouli
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter citrus edge that slices through humid air. The heart layers orange blossom's soapy radiance against patchouli's cocoa-brown earthiness while violet adds a cool, suede-like hush that mutes the brightness. Over the first hour the grapefruit softens, letting tuberose push forward with its rubbery creaminess that turns the composition plush and faintly tropical. Tonka bean and vanilla anchor the base, folding the white florals into a custardy warmth that still carries the ghost of patchouli's dry leaves. Projection stays within arm's reach for five hours before collapsing to a skin, making it office-safe yet present enough for after-work drinks. Works best in spring and early fall when temperatures hover between warm and cool, letting the citrus-floral balance breathe without either freezing or melting.
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.
