Água de Citrus
Lemon, grapefruit and bergamot fuse into a single sun-bright citrus flash that feels more candied than zesty, the oils pressed rather than squeezed.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Citrus50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Freesia
- Violet
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLemon, grapefruit and bergamot fuse into a single sun-bright citrus flash that feels more candied than zesty, the oils pressed rather than squeezed. Freesia steps in within minutes, its watery green-floral stem softening the citric bite while violet adds a cool, mineral iris-like dustiness that keeps the heart matte rather than juicy. Vetiver emerges early, carrying a clean, blond smoke that drags the citrus sugars across a bed of dried grasses; labdanum’s dark, resinous warmth thickens the base without overt sweetness, letting the scent finish as dry citrus-wood rather than typical cologologne musk. Projection stays polite, an arm’s-length whisper for two hours before settling into a skin-warmed vetiver glow that survives morning commutes. Best worn spring through early fall when humidity can amplify the violet’s airy lift.
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.




