Alba sui Navigli
A bracing Italian cologne dressed for early morning.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Rum70
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lime
- Petitgrain
- Vetiver
- Ambroxan
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA bracing Italian cologne dressed for early morning. Basil and lime open like a cracked-open citrus on a marble counter — herbal-green, sharp, more savory than sweet. Petitgrain reinforces the bitter twig-and-leaf side of the citrus tree, holding the freshness past the first ten minutes when most colognes collapse.
Vetiver carries the heart and base; it's grassy-rooty with a faint smokiness, anchored by ambroxan's salt-skin radiance and a clean musk. A whisper of rum (per the brand's own composition note) suggests a sugarcane warmth, but the perfume reads dry, not boozy.
Wears like a linen shirt on a sunlit walk. Best in heat, on bare skin, before noon.
Scent twins
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