Murmure Parfum
Basil and ylang-ylang open in a pairing that suggests green-floral rather than pure herbal — the basil providing an aromatic, slightly anise-like freshness while ylang brings dense tropical sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and ylang-ylang open in a pairing that suggests green-floral rather than pure herbal — the basil providing an aromatic, slightly anise-like freshness while ylang brings dense tropical sweetness. Bergamot ties them into a cohesive citrus-herbal opening.
Vanilla and musk form the base — soft, clean, and slightly sweet. The transition from ylang-basil to vanilla is the most notable aspect of the development: tropical floral opening resolving into a quietly sweet skin close. The result is wearable and summery, accessible without being generic. The basil-ylang accord at the opening is more interesting than the vanilla finish suggests it will be.
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.
