№ 48 Roter Mohn
Basil and lychee open in a surprising pairing, the herb sharp and green, the lychee adding a juicy floral-fruit sweetness behind it.
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.
- Rose65
- Fresh55
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lychee
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and lychee open in a surprising pairing, the herb sharp and green, the lychee adding a juicy floral-fruit sweetness behind it. The contrast reads modern and slightly off-balance.
A single rose carries the heart, fresh rather than jammy, the basil still hovering above to give a green-stems-and-petals impression. The composition stays light and feminine without going pastel, the rose feeling cut rather than dried.
White musk closes things down with a clean laundered warmth, no woods or amber to weigh things further. Overall character is bright, transparent and slightly unusual, a fresh rose with herbal-tropical accents for warm weather and casual wear, projecting modestly and fading within a few hours to a clean musky skin print.
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.
