Summer 9.0
Opens cold and bitter — orange and lemon peel pressed against orris's chalky root and a thread of cardamom heat.
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.
- Iris55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Lemon
- Orris
- Vetiver
- Cardamom
- Petitgrain
By the editors · 2 min readOpens cold and bitter — orange and lemon peel pressed against orris's chalky root and a thread of cardamom heat. The citrus reads less like sweet juice than like a sliced rind held in the sun, the kind of brightness that dries the mouth.
The heart settles into vetiver and orris together, a dry pairing that sidesteps the fruity-floral default of summer perfumery. Petitgrain in the base keeps the bitter green idea running into the dry-down, and a quiet amber rounds the edges without going syrupy.
It's a daytime composition that stays at arm's length: clean, herbal, almost austere. Better suited to a linen shirt and a hot afternoon than to a romantic context.
Scent twins
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