Isle of Man
Basil and grapefruit open green and tart — a leafy, slightly bitter top that reads aromatic and clean.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Salty
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Freesia
- Violet
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and grapefruit open green and tart — a leafy, slightly bitter top that reads aromatic and clean. The grapefruit cuts through the herbal weight without sweetening it, and the opening feels confidently spare.
Freesia and violet at the heart add gentle floral structure. Freesia keeps things pink and watery, violet contributes powdered sweetness, and the transition from herbal to floral is smoother than the note list suggests. The composition stays transparent throughout.
Vetiver and musk in the base land grounded and clean. Vetiver brings rooty bitterness that echoes the basil opening, while musk smooths the floral middle into a soft skin scent. Overall: a herbal-floral with a clean vetiver tail — gender-neutral, daytime-friendly, and well-suited to spring and casual wear. Projection is gentle, longevity moderate, and the drydown stays close.
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.
