Sunshine Oud
Basil opens green and camphoraceous, slicing-sharp against the cool marine iodine of ambergris, creating an aromatic-salty lift that feels like crushed herbs on wet stone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Amber80
- Aromatic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Ambergris
- Bergamot
- Musk
- Rose
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens green and camphoraceous, slicing-sharp against the cool marine iodine of ambergris, creating an aromatic-salty lift that feels like crushed herbs on wet stone. Bergamot flashes quickly, allowing the heart’s rose to emerge clean and lightly spiced, its petals dusted with clean white musk that keeps the bloom airy rather than plush. Labdanum and amber in the base fold the earlier salt into a warm, resinous glow, letting the musk-rose tandem linger on skin with a low, golden hum. Projection stays within arm’s length for five hours, then settles to a translucent skin veil that still releases whispers of herb-flecked amber when warmed. Best in spring or early-fall cool evenings when its quiet radiance can read as relaxed elegance rather than statement perfume.
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.




