Cherry Rush
Basil slices through the first breath, its cool green edge sharpened by bergamot’s terse citrus flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Iris70
- Green60
- Mossy60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
- Labdanum
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBasil slices through the first breath, its cool green edge sharpened by bergamot’s terse citrus flash. Within minutes the herbs recede, letting tonka bean swell with soft almond sweetness while labdanum’s resinous amber warmth anchors the mid-stage. Iris arrives dry and paper-powdery, scattering a faint violet-grey dust across the tonka, turning the accord from kitchen garden to suede-lined drawer. Oakmoss creeps in last, a quiet earthy carpet that muffles the earlier brightness and leaves a muted, slightly bitter green shadow clinging to skin. Projection stays polite, a handshake’s reach that lasts the workday before folding into a whisper of sweet moss and iris. Cool spring mornings and crisp fall offices suit its restrained aromatic chypre logic.
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.
