Acerola e Hibisco
Brazilian acerola cherry arrives first — tart, sun-bright, and distinctive against the more familiar bergamot and lemon.
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.
- Musky60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Acerola
- Hibiscus
- Hedione
By the editors · 2 min readBrazilian acerola cherry arrives first — tart, sun-bright, and distinctive against the more familiar bergamot and lemon. Mandarin adds a softer citrus layer beneath. The heart is minimal: hibiscus contributes a faint floral acidity, while hedione — a jasmine lactone — gives the middle register a clean, slightly watery radiance rather than a conventional floral presence.
The base is intentionally threadbare: transparent woods and musk keep the fragrance skin-close and unobtrusive. Built for heat and humidity, this is the kind of scent that works as a daily refresh rather than a statement. The acerola note is its one distinguishing feature, marking it as specifically Brazilian rather than generically tropical.
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.
