Eau de Basilic Pourpre
Eau de Basilic Pourpre opens sharply with Calabrian bergamot and basil, the two notes competing for the same green-citrus register before separating.
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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.
- Citrus70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Calabrian Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Basil
- Purple Basil
- Geranium
By the editors · 2 min readEau de Basilic Pourpre opens sharply with Calabrian bergamot and basil, the two notes competing for the same green-citrus register before separating. In the heart, common basil gives way to purple basil — leafier, darker, faintly of anise — joined by geranium's rose-metallic sharpness. The base is patchouli warmed by an unspecified spice accord, which pulls the composition from garden freshness toward something earthier and more durable. Christine Nagel's Jardin entry is the most culinary-facing of the series: it smells of a kitchen herb garden cut in late summer, green with a hint of bruised stems and soil underneath.
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.
