Adage
Adage opens with grapefruit and osmanthus — grapefruit's tart-bitter citrus paired with osmanthus's apricot-floral softness.
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.
- Citrus60
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Osmanthus
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Rose
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readAdage opens with grapefruit and osmanthus — grapefruit's tart-bitter citrus paired with osmanthus's apricot-floral softness. The combination is slightly fruity and lightly floral rather than straightforwardly citrus, with osmanthus adding an unexpected peach-like register.
Vetiver, patchouli, and musk anchor the dry-down. Vetiver brings smoky earthiness; patchouli adds depth and slight darkness; musk settles the composition toward the skin. The base grounds the initial softness with structural weight.
Adage moves from a light, fruity-floral citrus opening into a heavier earthy-mossy close. The contrast gives it more range than its short note count suggests. Best in transitional weather where both phases can express themselves.
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.
