Mercedes Benz Cologne
The opening strikes with bright grapefruit and pink pepper, a clean citrus bite that carries a peppery snap rather than sweetness.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Fruity50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Vetiver
- Musk
- Ginger
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes with bright grapefruit and pink pepper, a clean citrus bite that carries a peppery snap rather than sweetness. It's sharp without being aggressive, like stepping into an air-conditioned space on a hot afternoon. The mandarin adds roundness but never tips into candy territory.
As it settles, ginger takes center stage—not the crystallized confection but the raw root, warm and slightly medicinal. The vetiver underneath keeps things grounded with its grassy, slightly smoky character, while musk provides a soft backdrop that feels more functional than seductive.
This is automotive styling translated to scent: streamlined, modern, deliberately unadorned. It reads masculine in the traditional sense—efficient, composed, nothing extraneous. The kind of fragrance that works for someone who wants to smell fresh and well-groomed without making a statement about it. Office-appropriate, forgettable by design, gone by mid-afternoon.
Scent twins
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