South Bay
A bright citrus-wood cologne with a quietly textured base.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Grapefruit
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readA bright citrus-wood cologne with a quietly textured base. Petitgrain and grapefruit open zesty and bitter, more rind than juice, with a green snap that keeps the whole thing dry. Freesia in the heart is a thin cool floral filament — present, never soapy.
What pulls it from cologne territory toward something more interesting is the dry-down. Sandalwood adds a creamy warmth and vetiver a clean earthiness; together they give the composition weight without ever turning heavy. There's a faint suede-and-rose undertone that surfaces late, more felt than smelled. Daytime, warmer weather, casual — polished without announcing itself.
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.
