Scholar’s Mate
Grapefruit opens bright and sharply juicy, its citrus oil sheen immediately pricked by cardamom’s cool, camphor-green spice that lifts the accord into airy territory.
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.
- Iris80
- Fresh Spicy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens bright and sharply juicy, its citrus oil sheen immediately pricked by cardamom’s cool, camphor-green spice that lifts the accord into airy territory. A quiet bergamot layer adds a faintly bitter edge, keeping the top from turning sugary while orris drifts in early, lending a dry, carrot-root powder that blurs the citrus edges and introduces a muted grey floral heart. As the grapefruit recedes, the orris folds into sandalwood, the creamy wood softening the iris dust and letting a vetiver strand run through, adding a clean, slightly smoky grass that extends wear. Projection stays polite, a low-lying skin veil perfect for office days or close spring evenings when you want freshness without announcement.
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.
