The Key
Grapefruit opens with a bright, slightly bitter zest that quickly folds into ginger’s warm, peppery pulse.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Ginger
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a bright, slightly bitter zest that quickly folds into ginger’s warm, peppery pulse. The heart stays dry, letting the rhizome’s sharp heat ride theTonka bean steps in early, wrapping the ginger in a faint almond-coumarin sweetness before sandalwood’s creamy wood smooths the edges. On skin the grapefruit fades within twenty minutes, leaving a soft, musky-woody haze that sits close to the body and lasts about five hours, projecting no more than arm’s length. It reads like a casual daytime scent for warm spring or cool summer offices, never loud enough to offend cubicle mates yet bright enough to feel freshly showered.
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.
