Angelica
Grapefruit cracks open with a bitter pith snap that quickly folds into lavender’s cool, camphor breeze.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Black Pepper
- Ambrette
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit cracks open with a bitter pith snap that quickly folds into lavender’s cool, camphor breeze. Heart herbs stack layers: rosemary’s pine-needle green sharpens the citrus edge while black pepper seeds a slow, woody heat that warms the skin for hours. Ambrette seed in the base steers the fragrance away from clean cologne clichés, adding a faint musky fuzz that feels like suede rubbed with salt. Mid-stage the lavender softens, letting the pepper-ambrette tandem dominate, projecting a low, steady hum rather than shouting. Sillage stays arm-length, perfect for spring office days or cool summer evenings when you want presence without announcement. The four-note pyramid keeps transitions legible yet satisfying, lasting six to seven hours on fabric.
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.
