Shades
**Shades** opens with a bright herbaceous jolt—bergamot sharpened by the green, almost peppery bite of basil.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus75
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Mint
- Lily
- Peony
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min read**Shades** opens with a bright herbaceous jolt—bergamot sharpened by the green, almost peppery bite of basil. It's an immediate wake-up call, clarifying and uncomplicated. Within minutes, mint arrives to reinforce that cooling clarity, while lily and peony soften the edges with a pale floral haze that never grows heavy or sweet.
The base introduces cardamom as a warming counterpoint, its resinous spice lending just enough body to keep the composition from evaporating entirely. The effect is crisp and clean without veering clinical, like standing in a tiled conservatory where herbs grow alongside cut flowers.
**Shades** suits those who want freshness with a bit of structure—morning meetings, warm-weather errands, or anyone who finds most florals too dense and most citruses too fleeting. It occupies a middle ground: composed but not formal, green but not austere.
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.




