Sugarful & Spice
Blood orange opens with a vivid, slightly bitter citrus burst — more pulp than zest, giving it immediate character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Ginger
- Pink Pepper
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens with a vivid, slightly bitter citrus burst — more pulp than zest, giving it immediate character. It sits above a warm core without feeling disconnected from what follows.
Ginger and pink pepper move in quickly, adding a dry, lively spiciness that sharpens the blood orange rather than replacing it. Peony in the general accord contributes a fleeting softness, though this never reads as primarily floral.
Amber and vanilla form a smooth, sweet base that's gourmand-adjacent without tipping into dessert territory. The almond-lactonic undertones from the note prior round out the dry-down. Overall a spiced citrus-vanilla with good contrast between the bright top and warm base — suited to cooler casual settings.
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.
