To Be
Grapefruit opens things up with a clean, slightly bitter citrus edge — direct and unpretentious.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Violet Leaf
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens things up with a clean, slightly bitter citrus edge — direct and unpretentious. There's no attempt to complicate the top, just that citrusy brightness doing its work before stepping aside.
Violet leaf arrives with a green, almost watery quality, cooler than the flower itself. It bridges the fresh top into the base without drama. Beneath it, amber and patchouli provide the foundation — warm and faintly earthy but not heavy. Virginia cedar keeps everything dry and grounded, preventing the amber from becoming sticky.
The overall character is clean and slightly woody, suited to casual wear. It reads as a straightforward fresh-amber without asking much of the wearer.
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.
