Lux Opulent
Grapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter peel brightness that immediately projects.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Black Currant
- Damask Rose
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit opens with a tart, slightly bitter peel brightness that immediately projects. Black currant folds in a dark berry tang, its tartness amplifying the citrus rather than sweetening it, while Damask rose adds a soft, powdery floral cushion that keeps the fruit from turning candied. Sandalwood and patchouli arrive early in the dry-down, the wood lending creamy thickness and the patchouli giving an earthy, slightly camphoric edge that mutes the rose. Labdanum and vanilla warm the base, creating a resinous amber that feels matte, not sugary, and musk shepherds the accord into a close, skin-hugging glow within three hours. Projection drops to intimate radius, making it office-safe yet quietly noticeable during cooler spring or fall days.
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.
