Midsummer Woman
The opening is a bright citrus-melon surge, sharp with grapefruit and lemon but softened by the dewiness of crushed grass.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Grass
- Raspberry
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a bright citrus-melon surge, sharp with grapefruit and lemon but softened by the dewiness of crushed grass. It feels like standing in a garden just after the sprinklers have run—green, wet, optimistic. Within minutes, the fruit shifts from sharp to round as raspberry and apricot emerge, their sweetness tempered by lily of the valley's clean soapiness and a whisper of violet powder.
As it dries down, jasmine and rose add modest florality without ever becoming heavy, while sandalwood and cedar provide a thin woody frame. The musk stays close to the skin, polite rather than assertive. The overall effect is cheerful and uncomplicated—a summer fragrance in the most literal sense, built for heat and movement rather than contemplation. It suits someone who wants to smell fresh without thinking too hard about it.
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.
