Lilyn
Basil’s green bite slices through a jasmine top that feels more stem than petal, giving the opening a crushed-herb sharpness that keeps tropical sweetness at bay.
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.
- Salty60
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Coconut
- Tuberose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Seaweed
By the editors · 2 min readBasil’s green bite slices through a jasmine top that feels more stem than petal, giving the opening a crushed-herb sharpness that keeps tropical sweetness at bay. The heart swells with coconut cream folding into ylang-ylang’s custard richness, while tuberose keeps a rubbery, almost saline edge that stops the accord from turning dessert-like. Seaweed and ambroxan ride in on a cool, ozonic breeze, stretching the white flowers over a tide-line of sun-baked salt and faint iodine that clings to skin like dried ocean spray. Projection stays close but persistent, a skin-hugging veil perfect for humid summer evenings when you want sunscreen memory without sugar overload.
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.