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Basil and black currant open together — the basil providing green-herbal sharpness, the currant a tart, slightly jammy fruitiness.
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.
- Herbal60
- Leather60
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Black Currant
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and black currant open together — the basil providing green-herbal sharpness, the currant a tart, slightly jammy fruitiness. Grapefruit adds brightness and bergamot ties the opening into a coherent fresh-fruity-herbal accord. The combination is distinctive, with the basil preventing the fruit from reading as purely sweet.
The base is a full structure: sandalwood, leather, vetiver, amber, vanilla, patchouli, and musk. Leather and vetiver provide dryness and depth; sandalwood and vanilla add warmth and creaminess; patchouli and amber layer resinous richness. The arc from the sharp herbal-fruity opening to the warm, resinous base is substantial — this earns its complexity score. The leather base gives the composition a confident, slightly masculine character despite the fruity opening.
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.
