Synthetic Nature
Basil opens with a crushed-leaf brightness that throws the first green snap across cool lily of the valley and a tart black-currant bud.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Herbal60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lily of the Valley
- Black Currant
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens with a crushed-leaf brightness that throws the first green snap across cool lily of the valley and a tart black-currant bud. Within minutes the green stem softens as jasmine and ylang-ylang bloom, turning the accord from kitchen-herb crisp to dewy white floral without ever becoming sweet. Patchouli arrives early, threading earthy tobacco tone under the petals so the composition stays matte rather than creamy. The dry-down keeps the same green-mineral character: no vanilla, no musk, just dried leaves pressed between flower petals. Projection sits at polite arm’s length for six hours, perfect for spring office days when you want freshness without citrus clichés.
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.
