Murmure (2020)
Basil dominates the opening, releasing a pepper-green snap that instantly cools ylang-ylang’s creamy sweetness and bergamot’s polite sparkle.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBasil dominates the opening, releasing a pepper-green snap that instantly cools ylang-ylang’s creamy sweetness and bergamot’s polite sparkle. Within minutes lily-of-the-valley steps forward, its rain-soaked stems amplifying the herbal chill while a restrained rose adds a faint powder that keeps the accord from turning medicinal. Guaiac wood arrives early, bringing a dry pencil-shaving smoke that steers the composition toward transparent woods, then vanilla melts the edges, turning the green-wood heart into a clean skin-scented veil. Musk shepherds the fade-out, extending the soft wood layer for several hours while maintaining the cool, slightly soapy aura created by the basil-lily axis. Projection stays office-close, forming a two-foot clean-green halo that feels shower-fresh rather than perfumed.
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.




