Acqua Viva
Acqua Viva opens as pure citrus essence—not the polite squeeze of lemon in tea, but the bright oil that sprays when you tear into the rind.
The scent fingerprint
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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.
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- Lemon
By the editors · 2 min readAcqua Viva opens as pure citrus essence—not the polite squeeze of lemon in tea, but the bright oil that sprays when you tear into the rind. There's a faint mineral quality underneath, like water beading on stone in summer heat, but the lemon remains unwavering. No florals soften it, no sweetness rounds the edges.
What's remarkable is the tenacity. Where most citrus fragrances fade within an hour, this holds its clarity for much longer, the lemon gradually warming on skin but never turning soapy or bitter. It feels Italian in the particular way that shaded courtyards and cold white wine feel Italian—effortless, ungarnished.
Best suited to those who want to smell clean and awake without signaling anything else. This is lemon as a statement of refusal: no composition, no story, just light.
Scent twins
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