Nirvana
Cool basil and a tangle of citrus — orange, lemon, bergamot — open in the grapefruit-laced way of a 1990s aromatic chypre, fresh but never sharp.
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.
- Amber55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Grapefruit
By the editors · 2 min readCool basil and a tangle of citrus — orange, lemon, bergamot — open in the grapefruit-laced way of a 1990s aromatic chypre, fresh but never sharp.
The heart slips into a fruited jasmine with plum lending a stewed-fruit weight beneath the white floral. Civet wakes up underneath, less feral than human, and the base of cedar, sandalwood, patchouli, amber, benzoin and musk slowly stitches the citrus opening to a warm woody close.
The arc is long and tonal rather than dramatic: aromatic citrus floats, then a slow descent into resinous, slightly animal woods. It reads as cosmopolitan, evening-leaning, and unmistakably built for a grown-up wardrobe.
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.
