Cu
Cu opens with a clean, bright pairing of grapefruit and bergamot — crisp, lightly bitter, uncomplicated.
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.
- Citrus70
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readCu opens with a clean, bright pairing of grapefruit and bergamot — crisp, lightly bitter, uncomplicated. Jasmine in the heart introduces a white floral note that softens the citrus without overwhelming it, adding a mild sweetness.
Cedar, patchouli, and musk in the base ground the composition in a dry, woody register. The patchouli here is likely used at a low level — enough to add depth and a faint earthiness without asserting the note's stronger facets. The overall result is a clean, modern citrus-floral masculine: easy to wear, conventional in structure, and effective for casual or office settings. The development is linear and predictable, which suits its approachable character.
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.