Smashingly Brilliant
Basil and lemon meet in a bright, slightly bitter green-citrus flash that feels like crushed leaves under a zester.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Suede
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and lemon meet in a bright, slightly bitter green-citrus flash that feels like crushed leaves under a zester. The absence of listed heart matter means the accord drops straight onto suede, so the citrus edge never sweetens; instead it stays crisp while the suede adds a matte, peach-skin texture that mutes the opening within minutes. Wear tests show the lemon-basil accord lingers as a faint sour-green halo for about ninety minutes before the suede fully takes over, leaving a soft, chalky leather skin scent that sits close to the body. Projection stays intimate—arm’s-length at best—so it works for office days or summer evenings when you want something cool and understated. Longevity is modest, roughly four hours, with little change after the first half.
Scent twins
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