Basile Basile 2009 Parfum
Orange blossom opens waxy and honeyed, its indolic heft dragging bergamot from bright to bruised in minutes.
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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.
- Oud90
- Smoky60
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Oud
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom opens waxy and honeyed, its indolic heft dragging bergamot from bright to bruised in minutes. A double dose of oud lands next: the heart version is medicinal-rubbery, sharpening jasmine’s indoles and drying rose to a papery curl, while the base rebuilds the same wood as a smoother, resin-rich leather-amber that finally quiets the florals. Transition feels like two accords racing: floral-oud smoke versus resin-oud embers, with the embers winning after ninety minutes. Projection stays within arm’s reach for six hours, then collapses to a skin-length resinous skin scent that lingers through the workday. Cool fall evenings, dark coat collars, and low-light restaurants give this smoldering orange-oud dialogue the chill air it needs to read deliberate rather than loud.
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.
