Compass
Lemon and grapefruit peel open with a brisk, sunlit snap that feels like chilled citrus rind against skin.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Violet
- Sage
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and grapefruit peel open with a brisk, sunlit snap that feels like chilled citrus rind against skin. Violet leaf adds a cool, green-metallic nuance that bridges the citric brightness into the aromatic heart. Sage and lavender arrive together, the first lending a camphorous lift, the second a clean, softly camphoraceous floral that keeps the accord airy rather than sweet. In the dry-down, tonka bean folds in a faint almond-coumarin cream while ambergris and labdanum create a salty, skin-warm glow that clings close. Cedar shavings drift underneath, sharpening the base without turning powdery. Projection stays polite, a citrus-aromatic mist that lingers for about five hours and feels most at home on warm spring weekends or vacation evenings.
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.




