NüWa 2015 Edition
Grapefruit and bergamot crack open with a bitter-citrus flash that quickly folds into jasmine’s indolic cream and orange blossom’s honeyed sparkle, the white petals amplifying the opening’s brightness while injecting a faintly animalic undertone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot crack open with a bitter-citrus flash that quickly folds into jasmine’s indolic cream and orange blossom’s honeyed sparkle, the white petals amplifying the opening’s brightness while injecting a faintly animalic undertone. Cumin slips in underneath, lending a sweaty-skin heat that keeps the bouquet from turning too pristine, then sandalwood’s milk-fed wood smooths the spices and lets benzoin’s caramelic resin pool at the base. Over hours the vanilla thickens, turning the dry-down into a softly powdered amber skin-scent that still carries a ghost of the cumin’s body-heat signature. Projection stays polite, hovering just outside the collar for most of the workday before collapsing into a cashmere-close whisper. The composition feels engineered for cool spring offices and fall gallery openings, never loud enough to offend yet quietly memorable when someone steps near.
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.
