Eau du Soir 2017
Grapefruit opens with a single, clean citrus note — the characteristic bitter-bright quality of the peel rather than the sweet flesh.
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.
- Citrus70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Moss
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a single, clean citrus note — the characteristic bitter-bright quality of the peel rather than the sweet flesh. It reads as straightforward and uncomplicated in the opening minutes.
Amber and musk form the base, creating a warm, slightly sweet skin-close drydown. Amber here provides some resinous depth while musk keeps things close and intimate. There is no middle-note structure, so the transition from citrus to amber-musk happens fairly quickly.
The composition is spare and linear — a citrus-to-amber arc that feels familiar but wearable. Confidence is low given the very thin pyramid. Best suited to warmer months when a light, warm-skin impression is the goal rather than lasting projection.
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.
