Legend Red
Legend Red opens with a jolt of bright citrus—blood orange and grapefruit collide, their tartness tempered by a whisper of cardamom that adds warmth without sweetness.
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.
- Woody65
- Citrus55
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Cedar
- Clary Sage
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readLegend Red opens with a jolt of bright citrus—blood orange and grapefruit collide, their tartness tempered by a whisper of cardamom that adds warmth without sweetness. The initial spray feels clean and energetic, almost athletic in its straightforwardness.
As it settles, cedar takes center stage, doubled down between heart and base. Clary sage brings an herbal clarity that keeps the wood from turning generic, while tonka bean rounds out the drydown with a soft, almost vanillic cushion. The overall effect is woody-aromatic without veering into either office-safe blandness or niche complexity.
This is a fragrance for someone who wants presence without drama—legible, confident, unpretentious. It wears well in casual settings and transitions easily from day to evening, particularly in cooler weather when the cedar can breathe without overwhelming.
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.
