Chemystery
Basil and grapefruit spark a cool, peppery-green opening that feels like crushed leaves under citrus rind.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
- Thyme
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and grapefruit spark a cool, peppery-green opening that feels like crushed leaves under citrus rind. Cardamom and nutmeg ride that chill, adding a faintly sweet, metallic edge that keeps the top lively for twenty minutes. Lavender and thyme step in together, folding the greens into a dry, softly camphoraceous heart that smells more like Provence soap than fields. Tonka bean warms the base first, lending a faint almond-coumarin softness that sandalwood smooths into a creamy blond wood panel; vetiver and cedar keep it taut, earthy, and cleanly masculine. On skin the scent stays close, projecting an arm’s-length aromatic haze for six hours before settling into a musky, wood-tonka skin whisper. Office-safe year-round, it feels freshest in spring air and after-shower skin.
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.