Vie de Chateau
Grapefruit flashes first, tart and slightly bitter, slicing across a dewy grass accord that smells like crushed stems rather than lawn clippings.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Citrus60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Grass
- Tobacco
- Leather
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit flashes first, tart and slightly bitter, slicing across a dewy grass accord that smells like crushed stems rather than lawn clippings. Within minutes the green brightness is smoked back by dry tobacco leaf whose hay-like sweetness pulls the citrus into an almost candied orange peel direction. Leather emerges in the base, not shiny but sun-baked and cracked, stitched to patchouli’s cool earth so the tobacco never turns sugary. A clean white musk sheen keeps the finish aerated, letting the scent hover just above shirt cuff for several hours before it settles into a soft leather-tabac skin whisper that feels ready for a tweed pocket rather than a nightclub. Projection stays polite, maybe arm-length for the first two hours, then intimate; cool autumn days and office corridors are its natural habitat.
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.
