Gambit
Petitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash, its twiggy edge sharpened by clove’s medicinal heat while lavender keeps the accord cool and taut.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Mimosa
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash, its twiggy edge sharpened by clove’s medicinal heat while lavender keeps the accord cool and taut. The heart slides cardamom’s cool dust across mimosa’s soft yellow pollen, turning the earlier dryness into something airy and slightly sweet. Sandalwood arrives early, its creamy lactones smoothing clove’s bite and knitting the spices into a single woody panel that stays close to skin. Patchouli surfaces late, adding a clean, leaf-crumble earth that keeps the base from turning dessert-like; the result feels like spiced driftwood left in morning shade. Projection stays polite, a low-hum aura perfect for office or travel in cool weather, and the whole ride folds into suede skin-scent after six quiet hours.
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.
