Source Joyeuse No2
Tarragon, basil, and star anise open in tight herbal-aromatic concert — tarragon green and slightly licorice-edged, basil sharp and clean, star anise adding a sweet aniseed warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Basil
- Star Anise
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readTarragon, basil, and star anise open in tight herbal-aromatic concert — tarragon green and slightly licorice-edged, basil sharp and clean, star anise adding a sweet aniseed warmth. Bergamot lifts the whole thing with a polished citrus brightness. The opening reads gardeny and unusual rather than sport-fresh.
Jasmine alone carries the heart, its creamy slightly indolic warmth blooming against the lingering herbs. The contrast between the green aromatic top and the soft white floral middle is the perfume's main movement.
Ambergris, vetiver, and musk close the base. Ambergris lends salty-skin marine warmth, vetiver adds rooty smoky earthiness, and musk smooths the whole structure into clean skin. Overall character: a green-aromatic-floral with a marine-rooty drydown, quietly distinctive. Projection moderate, longevity moderate to strong.
Scent twins
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