Antiqua
Basil and bergamot spark a green-citrus snap sharpened by nutmeg's peppery warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bergamot spark a green-citrus snap sharpened by nutmeg's peppery warmth. The heart layers lavender's cool camphor tone against jasmine's indolic cream and osmanthus' apricot suede, while cedar splinters provide dry woody scaffolding. Black pepper crackles across the florals, preventing them from turning sweet. In the base, sandalwood's milky wood feeds into vetiver's rooty smoke, amber spreads a resinous glow, and tobacco leaf adds a brown-paper dryness that keeps thyme's green bite alive. Musk sheathes the accord in clean skin salt. The scent moves from brisk kitchen garden to softly honeyed woods, maintaining aromatic tension throughout. Projection sits at arm's length for six hours, then lingers as a woody musk haze perfect for smart-casual spring outings.
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.




