Eternity Summer 2008
Basil and bamboo open green and slightly soapy — a more aromatic, less fruit-driven start than the typical Eternity Summer flanker.
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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bamboo
- Neroli
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Ginger
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bamboo open green and slightly soapy — a more aromatic, less fruit-driven start than the typical Eternity Summer flanker.
The heart is a clean white-floral trio: neroli, jasmine, and lily of the valley, all rendered in their cologne register rather than their indolic one. Ginger threads a faint warm spice through the base while iris and musk hold the drydown together — the iris doing soft, slightly powdery work, the musk keeping it clean.
It reads as a daytime perfume for warm weather, casual rather than dressy, and stays close to skin after the first hour. The basil-and-bamboo opening is what makes it more interesting than its franchise siblings.
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.
