Crave
Crave opens with a flash of bergamot that quickly gives way to an unexpected heart of basil—green, faintly peppery, more aromatic herb than citrus cologne.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Woody75
- Mossy70
- Earthy65
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Birch
By the editors · 2 min readCrave opens with a flash of bergamot that quickly gives way to an unexpected heart of basil—green, faintly peppery, more aromatic herb than citrus cologne. It's a brief, sharp detour before the fragrance settles into its real agenda: a dense, quietly smoky base built on sandalwood and birch tar, tempered by the sweet pulse of tonka bean.
The drydown is where it lives. Oakmoss and vetiver lend it a classic masculine structure, while nutmeg and musk add warmth without tipping into sweetness. The birch gives it a faint leather-like edge, subtle but present, like worn suede rather than polished hide.
This is a fragrance that wears close and linear, more introspective than loud. It suits someone who wants presence without performance—solid, unshowy, the olfactory equivalent of a well-made coat.
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.
