Poivre Colonial
Grapefruit opens sharp and bittersweet, its zest streaked with nutmeg’s dry, peppery warmth that immediately tilts the scent green-woody rather than citrus-bright.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Mossy80
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Nutmeg
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Oakmoss
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens sharp and bittersweet, its zest streaked with nutmeg’s dry, peppery warmth that immediately tilts the scent green-woody rather than citrus-bright. Vetiver surges up early, smoky and rooty, braiding with cedar’s pencil-shaving dryness to form a lean, vertical heart that feels like split saplings in hot sun. Oakmoss darkens the palette, laying a cool, slate-green carpet that muffles the spices and lets muted patchouli earthiness settle in for hours. The dry-down stays low, matte, and forest-floor bitter, projecting no farther than shirt-collar radius yet clinging to cotton for eight hours. Cool spring mornings, outdoor workdays, and any situation where you want quiet green restraint rather than statement sweetness.
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.
