Lime and Basil
Lime opens bright and tart, slicing through bergamot's sweeter citrus edge to create an immediate sparkling-green accord that feels like crushed leaves and zest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Thyme
- Iris
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readLime opens bright and tart, slicing through bergamot's sweeter citrus edge to create an immediate sparkling-green accord that feels like crushed leaves and zest. Basil arrives early, its slightly peppery green bite amplifying the lime's pithy bitterness while thyme adds a dry, Mediterranean herb accent that keeps the heart crisp rather than lush. Iris slips in quietly, lending a cool, rooty powder that blunts the herbs' rough edges and links them to the earthy base. Vetiver and patchouli ground the scent with muted smoke and damp soil, letting the lime-basil accord echo for hours as a transparent green-wood skin aura rather than a loud citrus shout. Projection stays within arm's length, perfect for office days or weekend farmers-market runs on mild spring and summer mornings.
Scent twins
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