Symbol For A Lady
Grapefruit opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus sparkle that quickly folds into a cool, powdery iris heart.
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.
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Sweet50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Amber
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus sparkle that quickly folds into a cool, powdery iris heart. Jasmine adds a clean white floral lift, keeping the iris airy rather than cosmetic, while the grapefruit’s tart edge lingers as a thin metallic thread. The base layers pale amber over dry cedar, letting musk blur the edges into a skin-close haze that feels freshly laundered rather than syrupy. During the dry-down the iris dominates, turning the composition into a soft grey veil that stays polite and office-safe. Projection sits at arm’s length for three hours before retracting to a cotton-scented whisper.
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.
