Eau du Soir 2018
Grapefruit opens cool and slightly bitter, dialing the brightness down compared to the original's citrus snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Mossy80
- Floral70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Moss
- Jasmine
- Labdanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens cool and slightly bitter, dialing the brightness down compared to the original's citrus snap. It sets up an unusually generous heart where moss and patchouli braid through jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, lily of the valley, labdanum, and iris.
The middle stage is dense and properly chypre in shape, with oakmoss giving the bouquet a damp, slightly bitter floor while iris adds a cool powdery thread. Labdanum bridges into a quiet amber-musk base that keeps the florals from drifting too dry.
Overall character is composed and grown-up, drier than the gourmand modern norm. Best in cool weather, evening or formal settings, and on wearers comfortable with green-mossy florals.
Scent twins
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