Melograno (Pomegranate)
Melograno opens with a bright flash of bergamot that quickly gives way to the perfume's central character: a tart, slightly astringent pomegranate accord that feels more seed than juice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Oakmoss75
- Bergamot70
- Patchouli65
- Musk60
- Fig Leaf50
By the editors · 2 min readMelograno opens with a bright flash of bergamot that quickly gives way to the perfume's central character: a tart, slightly astringent pomegranate accord that feels more seed than juice. The ylang-ylang and rose hover around it, softening the edges without sweetening the fruit, maintaining a dry, almost woody interpretation of pomegranate rather than the candied versions that would come later.
As it settles, oakmoss and patchouli anchor the composition with a classic chypre structure from the mid-sixties, when such bases were still common currency. The labdanum adds a faint resinous warmth, while musk keeps everything close to the skin. The result is pomegranate viewed through an old-world lens—restrained, slightly austere, with none of the exuberance modern fruity florals deliver.
This suits those who prefer their fruit perfumes tempered by earth and moss, or anyone curious about how Santa Maria Novella interpreted pomegranate before it became a ubiquitous note in contemporary fragrance.
