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Basil opens green and peppery, threaded with the sweeter citrus of blood orange and the cleaner snap of lemon.
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.
- Mossy75
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Blood Orange
- Lemon
- Ginger
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens green and peppery, threaded with the sweeter citrus of blood orange and the cleaner snap of lemon. The first impression is bracing and herbal — a kitchen-garden brightness with a faint juicy undertone.
Ginger steps in to bridge the top and base, adding a dry, root-like warmth that keeps things from going purely fresh. Then oakmoss begins to assert itself — damp, slightly bitter, faintly leathery — and pulls the composition toward a modern chypre shape. Projection is moderate; the texture is dry and slightly mineral, sitting close to the skin after the first half-hour rather than radiating outward.
Vetiver adds a rooty, smoky-green thread, and a soft amber rounds the very bottom without sweetening it. The overall character is an aromatic-mossy fresh scent with a quiet, sun-warmed dryness — unisex and easy through warmer months.
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.
