Gold
Blood orange opens with a juicy, slightly bitter zest that immediately grips the skin, while mint slices through with a cool, metallic edge that keeps the citrus from turning sugary.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Blood Orange
- Grapefruit
- Cinnamon
- Rose
- Styrax
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens with a juicy, slightly bitter zest that immediately grips the skin, while mint slices through with a cool, metallic edge that keeps the citrus from turning sugary. Cinnamon arrives early, threading warmth between the orange and rose, turning the heart into a spiced-fruit compote rather than a classic floral. Rose here is dry and papery, not lush; it acts as a filter, softening the cinnamon’s heat and letting the blood orange’s tartness linger longer than expected. As the spice subsides, styrax lays down a thin, leathery resin that smells like citrus peel pressed onto old wood, low on sweetness but persistent. Projection stays within arm’s length for about six hours, making it a bright yet warming option for cool spring mornings or layered under a scarf in early fall.
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.
