Histoire d'Amour
Basil and bergamot lift the opening with a green, slightly anisic crispness, while osmanthus tucks a soft apricot warmth underneath.
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.
- Floral85
- Honey80
- Yellow Floral70
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bergamot lift the opening with a green, slightly anisic crispness, while osmanthus tucks a soft apricot warmth underneath. The first impression is bright but textured, the herbal edge keeping the citrus from feeling thin.
The heart unfolds into a creamy bouquet — jasmine and ylang-ylang carrying weight, orange blossom adding a honeyed glow, narcissus and rose lending a slightly indolic depth that feels lived-in rather than fresh-cut. Honey is unmistakable in the base, thick and waxy, threaded through oakmoss and patchouli that ground the sweetness with damp earth. Sandalwood and amber lend a warm, balsamic finish that hugs the skin.
Overall the character reads as a richly perfumed floriental chypre with substantial trail and cool-weather warmth.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
