Citrus and Wood
Five citrus notes — lime, orange, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot — open together in a bright, slightly sharp spray.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Amber60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Orange
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Birch
By the editors · 2 min readFive citrus notes — lime, orange, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot — open together in a bright, slightly sharp spray. The effect is bracing rather than sweet, with grapefruit lending a mild bitterness that keeps the opening from reading as candy.
Ginger and cumin arrive in the heart and immediately shift the mood. Cumin especially gives the composition an earthy, faintly animalic warmth that contrasts with the earlier citrus brightness. Birch adds a clean, woody backbone.
The base is generously stacked: tonka, sandalwood, vanilla, amber, cedar, vetiver, moss, and patchouli together produce a deep, resinous warmth with earthy undertones. The drydown is the most complex stage, trading citrus for a mossy amber finish.
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.
