Paul Smith Sunshine Edition for Men 2010
Grapefruit opens with a single, clean citrus note — bright, slightly bitter, and characteristically short-lived.
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.
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Nutmeg
- Oakmoss
- Incense
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a single, clean citrus note — bright, slightly bitter, and characteristically short-lived. As a sole top note it projects simply without hedging into complexity.
Oakmoss, incense, and cedar form a classic, chypre-adjacent base. The oakmoss gives a green, slightly damp earthiness; the incense adds resinous smoke; cedar brings structure and a dry woodiness. The contrast between the fresh citrus opener and this dense, slightly austere drydown is the composition's main narrative.
For a minimal-note pyramid, this traces a longer stylistic tradition — fresh citrus into a dark, mossy-woody base. Masculine in overall feel and well-suited to cooler weather or formal settings where something restrained is appropriate.
Scent twins
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