Arethusa
Arethusa's opening is exuberant and complex: ginger's warm spice, sage's herbal dryness, plum's dark sweetness, orange's citric freshness, and fig's milky-green richness together create an opening of genuine abundance.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Jasmine50
- Rose50
- Leather50
- Patchouli50
- Sandalwood40
By the editors · 2 min readArethusa's opening is exuberant and complex: ginger's warm spice, sage's herbal dryness, plum's dark sweetness, orange's citric freshness, and fig's milky-green richness together create an opening of genuine abundance. For the first thirty minutes, different facets cycle to the foreground as the composition settles.
The heart is equally ambitious: sandalwood provides creamy structure alongside pomegranate's tart-sweet juiciness, jasmine's honeyed depth, saffron's warm-medicinal character, orange blossom's citric-floral brightness, grapefruit's bitter freshness, and rose's warmth. Seven notes that Tiziana Terenzi assembles with enough craft that the whole coheres rather than collapses.
Leather, vetiver, labdanum, and patchouli close with a dense, earthy-resinous base that anchors the rich mid-section and gives the fragrance the longevity the house is known for. A showstopping composition that rewards patience and cool weather.
