Escentric 05
The opening strikes immediately green and resinous—fig leaf and rosemary crushed between fingers, sharp with herbal oils and faintly soapy bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Rosemary
- Basil
- Orange
- Fig
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening strikes immediately green and resinous—fig leaf and rosemary crushed between fingers, sharp with herbal oils and faintly soapy bergamot. There's none of the milky sweetness usually associated with fig; instead, this leans into the bitter, photorealistic snap of the tree itself, amplified by basil's anise-like edge.
As it settles, freesia and jasmine appear but remain translucent, never blooming into full florals. They add lightness without dominating the composition, which stays rooted in that dry, Mediterranean scrubland feeling. Iris contributes a papery quality that keeps everything airy rather than heavy.
The base brings Escentric Molecules' signature molecule-driven warmth—ambroxan and Iso E Super create a glowing, skin-close hum that never quite resolves into traditional amber or wood. Cashmeran adds a velvety smoothness. This wears like standing in dappled sunlight beneath fig trees, more interested in atmosphere than statement. Best for those who want presence without projection, green without sweetness.
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.
