Barbershop
Basil opens green and slightly camphorous, slicing through the metallic shimmer of ambroxan to create a cool, barbershop-steam impression.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Amber50
- Animalic50
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Ambroxan
- Leather
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
- Lavender
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens green and slightly camphorous, slicing through the metallic shimmer of ambroxan to create a cool, barbershop-steam impression. Leather arrives quickly, drying the herbs into a supple hide that carries the lavender already lurking in the base up to the heart, so the composition smells like a towel steamed with lavender water then dragged across a well-worn strop. Tonka bean warms the leather with soft almond sweetness while oakmoss keeps it crisp and slightly bitter, preventing gourmand drift; musk blankets the final accord in clean skin-scent powder. Projection stays polite, a handshake radius that lingers as a faint grey leather-powder trace on shirt collars. Office-safe through three seasons, it shines brightest in cool weather when the moss moss facet can breathe.
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.