Volcano Gold
Grapefruit slices through first, tart and pithy, while ginger adds a peppery heat that keeps the citrus from turning sweet.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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
- Aromatic60
- Fresh Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Lavender
- Grapefruit
- Melon
- Sage
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit slices through first, tart and pithy, while ginger adds a peppery heat that keeps the citrus from turning sweet. Lavender follows quickly, cooling the spice with a clean, slightly camphoric edge. Melon arrives in the heart, watery and subdued, letting cardamom’s green sparkle take the lead; sage hovers quietly, lending a muted kitchen-herb dryness. The dry-down folds vetiver’s earthy smoke into incense resin, amber smoothing the edges, patchouli adding a dark cocoa facet that lingers on cloth. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, tilting casual and office-friendly through spring and early fall. Overall character is a crisp aromatic citrus over a muted woody-amber base, never loud, never sweet.
Scent twins
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