Pink Iris
Basil snaps open with a cool, peppery-green blade that slices through the first minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Vanilla70
- Green60
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBasil snaps open with a cool, peppery-green blade that slices through the first minutes. A dewy jasmine and soft red rose bloom together, the jasmine adding indolic lift while the rose folds in a faint powder that blunts the basil’s edge. Vanilla steadies the heart, turning the petals creamy and adding a gentle bakery warmth without overt sweetness; musk shepherds everything into clean skin. Over two hours the green flash subsides, leaving a pale almond-like creaminess where vanilla dominates and rose lingers as a pastel wash. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it office-friendly yet interesting; wear it through spring mornings and cool summer evenings when you want quiet, green-tinged freshness that settles into a soft, barely powdered skin aura.
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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.




