Eau de Yuzu
Yuzu slices through the opening with sharp, bitter-citrus oil that lands between lime and mandarin orange, while grapefruit adds a drier pith facet and a snap of chlorophyll-rich grass keeps the top airy rather than juicy.
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.
- Citrus80
- Green60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Yuzu
- Grapefruit
- Grass
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readYuzu slices through the opening with sharp, bitter-citrus oil that lands between lime and mandarin orange, while grapefruit adds a drier pith facet and a snap of chlorophyll-rich grass keeps the top airy rather than juicy. Black pepper arrives quickly, heating the citrus oils so they project farther and turning the scent into a cool-sour splash laced with prickly spice. Vetiver dominates the base, supplying a rooty, slightly smoky greenness that mingles with patchouli's earthy cocoa to dry the fragrance out; clean musk sheathes the woods and prevents any sour edge from lingering. The result feels like chilled citrus rind tossed onto wet garden soil after rain: bright, pepper-tinged, then quietly woody. Projection stays arm's length for four hours before settling to a vetiver skin aura; wear it to stay alert on humid spring mornings or sticky urban summer commutes.
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.
