Eau de Cologne
A classic cologne opening of mint, basil, lemon, and bergamot bursts cool and aromatic, with the basil and mint giving a herbal-garden lift that feels both bracing and elegant.
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.
- Aromatic65
- Lavender55
- Herbal50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Neroli
By the editors · 2 min readA classic cologne opening of mint, basil, lemon, and bergamot bursts cool and aromatic, with the basil and mint giving a herbal-garden lift that feels both bracing and elegant.
In the heart, lavender, rosemary, and neroli deepen the herbal core, while lily of the valley adds a dewy floral lift that softens the green-aromatic structure. The transition is smooth rather than abrupt.
The base settles into sandalwood, oakmoss, cedar, patchouli, and musk, lending a quietly chypre-shaped drydown that gives the composition surprising staying power for a cologne. The overall character is refined, unisex, and unfussy, suited to warm weather and daytime wear, with moderate longevity and a polite, room-friendly projection throughout.
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.
