Otto Kern Soft Contrast
Raspberry, apricot, and grapefruit form a bright, sweet-tart fruit opening — the raspberry and apricot lean sweet while grapefruit contributes a slightly bitter citrus note that keeps the combination from being cloying.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Lactonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Apricot
- Grapefruit
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry, apricot, and grapefruit form a bright, sweet-tart fruit opening — the raspberry and apricot lean sweet while grapefruit contributes a slightly bitter citrus note that keeps the combination from being cloying. The opening is vivid and approachable.
Sandalwood and vanilla form a simple, warm base — creamy and softly sweet, consistent with the fruity opening above. The composition is linear in character: sweet fruit on top, sweet wood below, with little transition drama between them. A clean, crowd-pleasing combination suited to casual warm-weather wear where something simple and pleasant is the goal.
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.
