Monodie - Transgression
Grapefruit snaps open with bitter pith and a flash of green zest that quickly folds into a bruised-plum heart, its jammy sweetness amplified by freesia’s watery pear edge while galbanum keeps the fruit from turning syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Fruity70
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Plum
- Freesia
- Galbanum
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit snaps open with bitter pith and a flash of green zest that quickly folds into a bruised-plum heart, its jammy sweetness amplified by freesia’s watery pear edge while galbanum keeps the fruit from turning syrupy. Rose arrives as a cool, dewy petal note that slices the plum’s sugar and lifts the composition toward a cleaner register. In the dry-down, caramel warms the sandalwood, creating a soft ambered wood that lets white musk settle close to skin, turning the earlier fruit into a sheer, skin-toffee veil rather than dessert. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it an easy daytime wear for mild spring or early fall afternoons when you want quiet fruit without confection overload.
Scent twins
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