Classic 1920
Basil and bergamot open the composition with a herbal-citrus snap, with apricot adding a soft fuzzy fruitiness and nutmeg a warm-dry spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Apricot
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Osmanthus
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bergamot open the composition with a herbal-citrus snap, with apricot adding a soft fuzzy fruitiness and nutmeg a warm-dry spice. The opening reads bright but already textured by the fruit and spice underneath.
Lavender takes over the heart with its aromatic chill, paired with jasmine, osmanthus, and rose for a wider floral middle. The osmanthus contributes its peach-leather face, knitting back to the apricot opening, and the rose stays slightly wine-like.
The base is a quiet woody cushion: sandalwood creamy, vetiver dry-rooty, amber resinous-warm, cedar pencil-shaving dry. The overall character is a polished aromatic-floral with a fruity opening and a soft woody-amber close — fairly composed, projecting moderately, and pitched for spring or cool-weather daytime wear.
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.
