Eau du Soir
The grapefruit opens brighter than expected for a fragrance called Eau du Soir, but within minutes it dissolves into something far more shadowed.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Mossy85
- Patchouli75
- Powdery70
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Clove
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe grapefruit opens brighter than expected for a fragrance called Eau du Soir, but within minutes it dissolves into something far more shadowed. The white flowers—jasmine, ylang-ylang, lily of the valley—arrive powdered and muted, never indolic or loud, held in check by dry iris and a measured dose of clove that keeps the sweetness at bay.
What emerges is a chypre built on oak moss and patchouli, substantial but not heavy, with enough amber and musk to warm the structure without softening its edges. The florals remain present but serve the composition rather than lead it, giving Eau du Soir a kind of seamless, old-fashioned elegance that feels increasingly rare.
This is evening wear in the most literal sense: tailored, unapologetic, made for someone who already knows what they like and doesn't need a fragrance to announce them from across the room.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
