Caractere
Lavender, basil, and bergamot open in a brisk aromatic trio, the basil's anise-green edge making the lavender feel sharper than usual and the bergamot lifting the whole.
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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Jasmine
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readLavender, basil, and bergamot open in a brisk aromatic trio, the basil's anise-green edge making the lavender feel sharper than usual and the bergamot lifting the whole. The entry reads emphatically of its era, polished and masculine.
Sage and jasmine deepen the heart's herbal-aromatic register, with the jasmine adding a faint creamy floral underneath the herbs.
The base is dense and old-school: oakmoss and patchouli for chypre earthiness, leather and incense for smoky animalic warmth, amber and cedar for dry resinous wood, with coconut adding a surprising creamy-tropical thread that softens the otherwise austere base. Clove and nutmeg add quiet spice. The drydown is leather, moss, and smoke holding longest. Built for cool weather and dressed-up wear.
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.
