Pleasures Intense for Men
Basil and grapefruit crack open green and bitter, the leaf’s grassy edge sharpening the pithy citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Green80
- Violet70
- Aromatic60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Tomato Leaf
- Violet
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and grapefruit crack open green and bitter, the leaf’s grassy edge sharpening the pithy citrus. Tomato leaf keeps that verdant bite alive into the heart, its salty green sap pressing against cool violet petals to create a damp greenhouse accord. Vetiver and cedar dry the foliage, adding splintered wood and faint smoke, while amber warms the background and a thin leather strap wraps the base in matte hide. The violet never fully sweetens; instead it hovers like bruised petals on wet soil, extending the green theme for hours. Projection stays polite, a skin-close garden trail suited to spring offices or cool summer evenings when you want nature without declaration.
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.