Brune Melancolia
Brune Melancolia opens with a bright, slightly bitter grapefruit-bergamot accord that gives the first minutes a clean citrus lift.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readBrune Melancolia opens with a bright, slightly bitter grapefruit-bergamot accord that gives the first minutes a clean citrus lift. Violet arrives quickly beneath it, adding a cool, slightly powdery dimension that tempers any harshness.
In the heart, rose joins the violet and a dry cedar-sandalwood structure begins to surface. Cinnamon provides warmth without sweetness — it reads as spice rather than gourmand, giving the floral center a quietly assertive edge.
The finish is woody and softly spiced, the florals receding into the dry base. Overall, this sits between a restrained floral and a light woody-spicy without committing fully to either — a contemplative, low-projection scent suited to cooler weather.
Scent twins
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