Salute
Lemon and grapefruit open with a tart, slightly bitter citrus brightness.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Iris80
- Mossy80
- Citrus50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Iris
- Oakmoss
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and grapefruit open with a tart, slightly bitter citrus brightness. The top has a clean almost herbal edge that pre-figures the cool middle to come.
Iris occupies the entire heart. It arrives in its rooty, slightly carrot-like character rather than the powdery cosmetic version, cool and earth-toned, sitting on its own without other florals to soften it.
The base is austere and confident. Oakmoss provides a damp green-brown floor and musk threads through quietly. Overall the perfume reads as a focused, three-act structure: bitter citrus, cool iris root, mossy floor. Projection stays moderate, the development is restrained, and the impression remains unified and adult-feeling, more like a chypre sketch than a fully orchestrated perfume.
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.