Sybaris
Basil and cumin crackle open with lemon’s metallic edge, a green-spark that feels almost peppery against the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Cinnamon80
- Leather70
- Smoky60
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Cumin
- Lemon
- Sandalwood
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and cumin crackle open with lemon’s metallic edge, a green-spark that feels almost peppery against the skin. The heart folds in sandalwood’s creamy dryness, letting cinnamon’s red-hot bark ride across jasmine’s indolic bloom, so the spice stays on top rather than buried. As the resinous base settles, oakmoss and vetiver lock into a bitter-green chord, incense smoke coils through patchouli’s dark earth, and leather’s tannic snap keeps the amber from turning soft; the result is dry, shadowed, and faintly smoky for hours. Projection stays polite—arm’s-length halo—yet the moss-leather accord keeps whispering well past midnight. Cool autumn nights, tweed, and low-lit bars suit its restrained swagger; heat flattens the spices and dulls the incense.
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.




