Tangerine Boy
The name suggests a tangerine at center stage — and while the ingredient list trades the specific fruit for ginger, black pepper, and lemon, the opening achieves a tangerine-adjacent brightness: zesty, slightly sharp, more complex than a single citrus.
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.
- Lemon50
- Jasmine40
- Orange40
- Apple35
- Black Pepper35
By the editors · 2 min readThe name suggests a tangerine at center stage — and while the ingredient list trades the specific fruit for ginger, black pepper, and lemon, the opening achieves a tangerine-adjacent brightness: zesty, slightly sharp, more complex than a single citrus. Apple and jasmine meet in the heart in an unexpected pairing: the apple fruity and cool, the jasmine warm and indolic, their combination landing somewhere between a citrus eau fraîche and a young floral.
Moss and amber anchor the base with quiet earthiness and warmth, extending the composition without redirecting it. The whole thing is light, wearable, and clearly built for warm weather — a pleasant, unchallenging citrus-floral for daily wear from Phlur's accessible niche positioning. Suits those who want something bright without edges.
