Botany
Basil dominates the opening, releasing a peppery green snap that slices through lemon's candied brightness and bergamot's polite sparkle, creating an aromatic-herbal flash that feels almost edible.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Aromatic60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Osmanthus
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBasil dominates the opening, releasing a peppery green snap that slices through lemon's candied brightness and bergamot's polite sparkle, creating an aromatic-herbal flash that feels almost edible. Jasmine steps forward next, its syrupy-petals folding around osmanthus' apricot fuzz while iris lends a cool, carrot-root starch that keeps the bouquet from turning overtly sweet. Vetiver threads earthiness through the heart, preparing the ground for ambergris' salt-skin and labdanum's piney resin to settle into a low, mossy hum that smells like driftwood parked in wet leaves. Projection stays within conversational range for roughly six hours, tilting the wear-time toward cool spring mornings or shaded garden lunches where green nuances won't compete with heat.
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.
