Flamboyant
The citrus opening is stacked and loud — lime, orange, grapefruit, and bergamot arriving together in a broad, zesty wave with no single note stepping forward.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readThe citrus opening is stacked and loud — lime, orange, grapefruit, and bergamot arriving together in a broad, zesty wave with no single note stepping forward. Cardamom and nutmeg in the heart introduce dry warmth, pulling the composition away from pure freshness toward something slightly more considered.
The base is structured in a manner more characteristic of 1990s masculines than contemporary design: sandalwood and Virginia cedar carry the wood element while oakmoss provides an earthy, slightly dated backdrop. Clean and confident in its citrus masculinity without pretension. The overall shape is brisk opening, brief spice, long clean close — a reliable formula executed without particular innovation.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
