Les Nuits d'Hadrien
The opening is surprising: basil arrives bright and herbal, almost minty, cut with the creamy sweetness of ylang-ylang.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Amber65
- Vanilla60
- Patchouli60
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is surprising: basil arrives bright and herbal, almost minty, cut with the creamy sweetness of ylang-ylang. It's an unusual pairing that feels both Mediterranean garden and tropical night, greenness meeting exotic floral warmth. The basil never quite fades, instead weaving through the development like a green thread.
As it settles, amber and vanilla emerge with restraint, adding soft golden weight without drowning the earlier brightness. Patchouli and musk provide earthy grounding, but this isn't a heavy oriental—the basil keeps things lifted and oddly fresh. The contrast between herbal clarity and creamy warmth persists for hours.
This is Hadrian's nights, not days: contemplative rather than bright, intimate rather than expansive. It suits someone drawn to fragrances that refuse easy categorization, comfortable with florals that smell of gardens rather than bouquets, and orientals that haven't forgotten the outdoors entirely.
Scent twins
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