I Love New York for Fathers
Basil and lime launch a hyper-green, almost metallic snap that smells like crushed leaves on a wet sidewalk.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Lime
- Sage
- Lavender
- Oakmoss
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and lime launch a hyper-green, almost metallic snap that smells like crushed leaves on a wet sidewalk. The lime’s sharp edge shears the basil’s grassy oils, creating an aromatic-citrus hybrid that feels more urban than Mediterranean. Sage and lavender arrive within minutes, swapping the citrus sparkle for a dry, slightly bitter herbal core; the sage’s camphorous lift keeps the lavender from turning powdery, so the heart stays crisp and somewhat medicinal. Oakmoss slowly darkens the base, adding a cool, earthy fuzz that muffles the herbs without sweetness, while ambergris-like musk provides a clean skin-scent finish that lingers close but persistent. Projection stays office-near for about six hours, making it an easy summer work scent that reads as freshly showered rather than perfumed.
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.
