Oxytocin
Lavender dominates the opening, cool and slightly camphorous against the citrus lift of lemon and bergamot, while basil adds a crisp green edge that keeps the accord airy rather than medicinal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy80
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Basil
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Apple
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readLavender dominates the opening, cool and slightly camphorous against the citrus lift of lemon and bergamot, while basil adds a crisp green edge that keeps the accord airy rather than medicinal. Apple arrives quickly, its tart sweetness softening the aromatics and creating a transparent fruity layer that lets cinnamon glow rather than scorch. The spice never turns bakery; instead it warms the heart like dry bark, letting cedar and patchouli push forward early and steering the scent toward a dry, forest-floor texture. Oakmoss blankets the base with a cool, loamy bitterness that tames the wood and keeps the musk clean, so the dry-down smells like shaded tree trunks after rain rather than skin-close warmth. Projection stays at conversational arm’s length for six hours, making it an easy spring-through-early-fall companion for office days and weekend errands alike.
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.
