Jardin du Poete
Opens with a sharp, leafy basil over pink-fleshed grapefruit — the citrus a little bitter, the herb almost peppery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic70
- Citrus60
- Green50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Pink Pepper
- Vetiver
- Musk
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a sharp, leafy basil over pink-fleshed grapefruit — the citrus a little bitter, the herb almost peppery. There's an immediate green crispness that reads almost vegetal.
Pink pepper at the heart amplifies that prickle, adding a dry, faintly rose-tinged warmth that keeps the composition alert. A whisper of orange blossom drifts through the midrange, more atmospheric than declarative. Then vetiver settles in — earthy, slightly smoky, a touch grassy — and musk smooths the dry-down into something clean and skin-close. The whole construction stays light and aerated, projecting modestly for the first couple of hours before becoming quite intimate. There's no sweetness anywhere.
Overall a bright, herbal-citrus cologne with a quiet vetiver finish — built for warm afternoons and breakfast tables.
Scent twins
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