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A green-floral that opens with a quick herbal-fruit jolt — basil and black currant pushing against the powdery violet and freesia up top.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Black Currant
- Freesia
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readA green-floral that opens with a quick herbal-fruit jolt — basil and black currant pushing against the powdery violet and freesia up top. The middle leans floral and slightly cool: jasmine and lily of the valley with iris underneath, the iris adding a dry powdered-paper texture rather than full root weight.
Through the dry-down it warms in a generic mainstream way — sandalwood and amber cradling vanilla, with musk flattening the seams. The opening bite of basil and black currant is the most distinctive thing about it; once those burn off, the perfume settles into the smooth pale-floral base shared by many turn-of-the-millennium feminines. Best in spring or early fall, daytime wear.
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.
