Neroli Portofino Acqua
A paler, more aqueous rendering of the original Neroli Portofino, this flanker leads with neroli stripped of its heavier indolic warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Citrus75
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA paler, more aqueous rendering of the original Neroli Portofino, this flanker leads with neroli stripped of its heavier indolic warmth. The citrus opening—bergamot, lemon, petitgrain—feels diluted and stretched thin, more like the memory of zest than the fruit itself. It hovers close to the skin, translucent and cool, the way light filters through linen curtains in summer.
As it settles, orange blossom emerges but remains subdued, sharing space with a soft white musk that lends an almost soapy cleanliness. The amberwood in the base barely registers, adding faint structure rather than depth. The overall effect is polite and inoffensive, built for high heat and close quarters.
This is neroli for those who want suggestion rather than statement—a fragrance that evaporates almost as quickly as it arrives, leaving little trace beyond a vague impression of Mediterranean air and freshly laundered cotton.
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.
