Tangalunga 2018 Edition
Blood orange opens with a vivid, slightly tart citrus note before guaiac wood takes the heart with its smoky, slightly medicinal character — resinous and dry rather than conventionally woody.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Smoky60
- Woody50
- Tropical50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Guaiac Wood
- Civet
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens with a vivid, slightly tart citrus note before guaiac wood takes the heart with its smoky, slightly medicinal character — resinous and dry rather than conventionally woody. Civet in the base adds a pronounced animalic depth that pushes the fragrance into challenging territory; paired with musk it becomes a skin-level warmth that has a raw, intimate quality.
This is an animalic woody-citrus — unconventional and somewhat confrontational. The guaiac smoke over civet creates a dark, feral drydown that is far removed from the bright blood orange that opens it. The contrast is striking. Not for those seeking comfort or conventionality; best for evenings and those who want something that wears close and raw.
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.



