Basso
Grapefruit gives a brisk, slightly bitter citrus opening — fresh without being sweet, and gone relatively quickly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Woody80
- Mossy70
- Fresh Spicy70
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Labdanum
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Black Pepper
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit gives a brisk, slightly bitter citrus opening — fresh without being sweet, and gone relatively quickly. Galbanum adds a green, almost resinous sharpness beneath it that keeps the top from feeling too familiar.
Black pepper, pink pepper, and nutmeg build a layered, dry spice core. The peppers push in opposite directions — pink pepper adding a faint rosy brightness while black pepper stays raw and angular. Vetiver and oakmoss ground the composition in cool, earthy, slightly smoky territory.
Sandalwood and cedarwood smooth the base without adding sweetness. The overall character is a precise, architectural woody-spicy structure — green-edged and dry throughout, with sustained depth and minimal softening.
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.
