Moon Safari
Grapefruit opens bright, tart and slightly bitter, slicing through humid air like a chilled citrus knife.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Leather50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Sage
- Neroli
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens bright, tart and slightly bitter, slicing through humid air like a chilled citrus knife. Sage arrives within minutes, its camphor-green facets folding bitter edges into an aromatic heart while neroli keeps the composition crisp and slightly metallic, preventing sweetness from forming. Tonka bean lands first in the base, releasing soft almond-vanilla warmth that slowly fills the citrus-herbal frame, then leather follows, swapping brightness for a matte, suede-like skin skin that carries the aromatic heart into dusk. On skin the grapefruit fades within ninety minutes, leaving sage-neroli hovering over a creamy tonka skin until leather finally dominates after four hours, projecting a quiet suede aura rather than loud animalics. Projection stays polite, creating a two-foot scent bubble ideal for summer office days or warm-weather travel when you want a non-sweet citrus that settles into understated leather.
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.
