Synthetic Jungle
Synthetic Jungle opens with a sharp green provocation — galbanum's cold, sappy bitterness alongside basil's aromatic herb, with black currant adding a dark, jammy contrasting note.
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.
- Floral60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Black Currant
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readSynthetic Jungle opens with a sharp green provocation — galbanum's cold, sappy bitterness alongside basil's aromatic herb, with black currant adding a dark, jammy contrasting note. It's an opening that announces its intentions: this is not a tame floral. The heart is where the title earns its meaning: jasmine, ylang-ylang, and lily of the valley are given a synthetic clarity that makes them hyperreal rather than naturalistic, while almond's milky sweetness softens the green edge into something unexpectedly lush.
Oakmoss and patchouli in the base are classical and slightly damp — the natural foundation beneath the manufactured jungle above. Dominique Ropion's construction is as clever as it is unexpected.
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.
