Aqua
Aqua opens crisp and astringent — a squeeze of lime cut with bergamot rind, the kind of citrus that reads more aftershave than perfume.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Lavender55
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Ambergris
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readAqua opens crisp and astringent — a squeeze of lime cut with bergamot rind, the kind of citrus that reads more aftershave than perfume. The lavender pulled into the heart keeps the structure aromatic rather than fruity, holding the freshness back from going sweet.
What carries it is the base. Vetiver gives it a green, slightly mineral spine, and the ambergris-amber pairing warms the dry-down without thickening it. The musk smooths the edges. By an hour in, the citrus has burned off and you're left with a clean woody-musky skin scent.
A straightforward fresh aromatic for warm weather and daytime wear — the kind of thing that disappears into a workday rotation without asking for attention.
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.