Davidoff
Lime and lemon snap open over basil — a green, barely-sweet citrus that reads more Mediterranean kitchen than cologne counter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Leather70
- Mossy70
- Patchouli60
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lime
- Lemon
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readLime and lemon snap open over basil — a green, barely-sweet citrus that reads more Mediterranean kitchen than cologne counter. The brightness fades fast, and what's underneath does most of the work: oakmoss, leather, and patchouli carry the perfume into something darker and more textural than the opening suggests.
A single rose threads the heart, but it's almost incidental — the body of the scent is animalic, with castoreum lending a faint smoky-leather warmth that sits close to the skin. Chypre architecture in the older sense.
It's a fall and winter scent, evenings rather than mornings, suited to wool and dim restaurants. Quiet on first sniff, more presence as the hours go.
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.
