Amour Fatale
Grapefruit opens with a sharp, slightly bitter citrus edge that immediately collides with roasted coffee bean, creating a dark, carbon-bitter accord that smells like espresso grounds scraped off a metal filter.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Vanilla50
- Amber50
- Floral50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Coffee
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a sharp, slightly bitter citrus edge that immediately collides with roasted coffee bean, creating a dark, carbon-bitter accord that smells like espresso grounds scraped off a metal filter. The coffee never sweetens; instead it grows drier, while the grapefruit’s pithy facets recede, letting the roasted note dominate for roughly an hour. Benzoin and vanilla arrive early, thickening the texture into a tar-laced latte, then patchouli folds in earthy cocoa powder that keeps the coffee from turning gourdy or syrupy. Musk sheathes the entire base, softening the roast so that the late dry-down reads as a smoky, slightly sweaty skin scent rather than a café gourmand. Projection stays within arm’sach for the first three hours before collapsing to a whisper of dark grounds on cotton. Cool autumn evenings or a rainy urban commute fit its brooding, low-lit temperament.
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.