Boss Number One
Basil, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a bracing, slightly herbal freshness that immediately signals intent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 22 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.
- Mossy65
- Woody55
- Lavender55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Lavender
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readBasil, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a bracing, slightly herbal freshness that immediately signals intent. Sage, lavender, and honey in the heart form the archetypal fougère accord, jasmine and lily of the valley adding floral warmth, rose providing classical depth. The base is the statement: oakmoss, sandalwood, tobacco, and patchouli creating a rich, animalic-mossy foundation with cinnamon and amber adding warmth, cardamom and nutmeg from the general accord lending spice. Number One is a pre-Axe-effect masculine — dense, structured, built for adults. It has aged gracefully.
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.
