Hot Water
Basil and wormwood open sharp and herbal — the basil green and slightly anisic, the wormwood bitter and medicinal.
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.
- Herbal80
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Basil
- Wormwood
- Patchouli
- Patchouli
- Paprika
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and wormwood open sharp and herbal — the basil green and slightly anisic, the wormwood bitter and medicinal. The pairing sets a distinctly aromatic, almost vegetal opening with no sweetness or citrus to soften it.
Patchouli and paprika in the heart shift the composition toward earthier, warmer territory. The paprika is unusual — dry, slightly smoky-sweet rather than peppery hot — and the patchouli runs damp and rooty alongside it. Benzoin and styrax in the base settle the herbal-spice accord into a balsamic, slightly resinous warmth. The drydown holds the patchouli-balsamic core for hours, with the wormwood's bitter edge persisting longer than expected. Unusual and slightly polarizing — herbal connoisseurs will recognize the architecture.
Scent twins
In this family
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