Classic Chypre
Basil and bergamot open brisk, the herb cutting the citrus peel into a cool, slightly bitter green flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Green60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bergamot open brisk, the herb cutting the citrus peel into a cool, slightly bitter green flash. Jasmine and rose bloom immediately underneath, their white-yellow petals softening the edges while still letting the green bite linger. Oakmoss and vetiver drive the heart downward into damp earth, patchouli adding leaf-rot richness and vanilla sweetening the loam just enough to keep it wearable. As hours pass the moss thickens, benzoin and tonka layering a powdery almond glaze over the roots while clove and nutmeg sparkle quietly in the background. Projection stays polite, a low-hum chypre aura perfect for office or spring trench-coat weather, lasting the workday before settling into a skin-close moss-vanilla shadow.
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.
