Brut Special Reserve
Basil, lemon, and bergamot open with a sharp, herbal-citrus snap, with anise lending a faint liquorice sweetness underneath.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Anise
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readBasil, lemon, and bergamot open with a sharp, herbal-citrus snap, with anise lending a faint liquorice sweetness underneath. The opening reads bright and slightly aniseed-tinged.
Lavender takes over the heart, dry and aromatic, with jasmine and ylang-ylang adding a discreet floral lift that prevents the lavender from feeling austere. The composition is structured along classical fougere lines.
The base is built on tonka and oakmoss — the hay-vanilla sweetness of tonka against the damp, earthy moss — with sandalwood, vetiver, vanilla, and patchouli stacking warmth and dry root underneath. The overall character is a polished aromatic fougere with a softer, slightly powdered finish. Projection sits moderate, longevity comfortable, pitched for cool-weather daytime or office 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.
