Rose Oud
Basil pushes forward a vegetal green bite that immediately frames the white petals of jasmine and lily-of-the-valley, giving the opening a faintly culinary edge rather than dewy innocence.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Animalic70
- Patchouli60
- Fresh50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Patchouli
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readBasil pushes forward a vegetal green bite that immediately frames the white petals of jasmine and lily-of-the-valley, giving the opening a faintly culinary edge rather than dewy innocence. The flowers stay sheer and soap-clean, never thickening into nectar, so when patchouli arrives it meets dry leaves instead of honey. Castoreum layers a musky, almost tarry fur note beneath that patchouli, turning the base into something leathery and slightly sour rather than resinous. Wear is quiet: the greens retreat within an hour, leaving skin-smelling musk flecked with soft earth. Office-safe in spring, but the animalic residue feels coolest when autumn air keeps it close to the body.
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.
