Empire
Tarragon and basil announce themselves immediately — anise-green and herbal, with bergamot providing a citrus frame that prevents the opening from turning fully culinary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readTarragon and basil announce themselves immediately — anise-green and herbal, with bergamot providing a citrus frame that prevents the opening from turning fully culinary. The combination is crisp, slightly cool, and immediately distinctive.
Jasmine and freesia emerge in the heart with moderate intensity. The freesia reads fresh and slightly fruity rather than heavily floral, while the jasmine sits back rather than dominating. The herbal thread from the top persists through this phase, keeping the heart from becoming a conventional white-floral arrangement.
Amber and musk form a warm, diffuse base. Neither pushes aggressively — the amber adds gentle resinous depth and the musk remains clean and skin-adjacent, allowing the aromatic herbs to define the lasting impression.
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.
