Or Masculin
Basil dominates the opening, releasing a crisp, green bite that slices through the lemon-bergamot brightness and immediately signals a bitter-aromatic personality rather than a cologne cliché.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Sandalwood
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBasil dominates the opening, releasing a crisp, green bite that slices through the lemon-bergamot brightness and immediately signals a bitter-aromatic personality rather than a cologne cliché. In the heart, sandalwood’s creamy dryness folds into patchouli’s camphoraceous earth, while jasmine lends a discreet floral lift that keeps the woods from turning murky. Oakmoss sweeps in early, stitching the composition to a cool, forest-floor base where amber provides quiet resinous padding and musk adds skin-close warmth. The scent darkens steadily: citrus oils evaporate within thirty minutes, leaving a dry, moss-tinged wood that smells like snapped twigs and shaded bark until late dry-down. Projection stays at arm’s length for roughly six hours, making it an easy office or weekend staple for cool spring and crisp autumn days.
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.
