Cafeina pour Homme
Basil opens green and slightly peppery, its leafy bite sharpened by grapefruit’s tart zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Green50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Lavender
- Tonka Bean
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens green and slightly peppery, its leafy bite sharpened by grapefruit’s tart zest. Lavender soon settles the chatter, bringing a clean, slightly camphoraceous core that smooths the herbal edge. Tonka bean warms the base, adding soft almond sweetness that rounds lavender’s dryness while musk keeps the finish skin-close and faintly fuzzy. The scent stays linear: the opening herbs relax into a sweet-herbal skin musk with little contrast or development. Projection hugs the body for three hours, making it office-safe but easy to overspray. Best in mild weather where the grapefruit lift won’t evaporate too quickly.
Scent twins
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