Opulent Sapphire
Basil dominates the opening, its green-spicy bite slicing through lemon’s tart brightness and bergamot’s softer citrus edge, creating an aromatic-citrus accord that feels almost Mediterranean.
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.
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBasil dominates the opening, its green-spicy bite slicing through lemon’s tart brightness and bergamot’s softer citrus edge, creating an aromatic-citrus accord that feels almost Mediterranean. The herbs stay vivid as jasmine’s indolic creaminess and rose’s honeyed petals rise, turning the heart into a floral bouquet still carrying the leafy snap of the top. Amber slowly warms the base, its resinous glow wrapping around cedar’s dry wood so the fragrance tilts from cool green to sun-baked timber without losing freshness. On skin the citrus fades within an hour, leaving basil to dance with the florals until the amber-cedar tandem takes over, projecting a clean, slightly sweet skin-scented wood that lasts close but steady. Best for warm spring afternoons and smart-casual offices where you want freshness without the usual aquatic clichés.
Scent twins
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