Cologne Officinale
Basil and galbanum launch with a brisk green snap that smells like crushed stems and kitchen herbs just after rain.
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
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Galbanum
- Sage
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and galbanum launch with a brisk green snap that smells like crushed stems and kitchen herbs just after rain. The heart folds in lavender’s cool, slightly camphorous lift alongside sage’s fuzzy bitter green and rosemary’s pine-edged bite, creating a layered aromatic medley that keeps the top’s verdant energy alive while adding depth. Amber arrives late, not as heavy resin but as a transparent, sun-warmed veil that softens the herbs without adding sweetness, letting the scent stay crisp through the dry-down. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it an effortless warm-weather option for office or weekend wear when you want clean sophistication without citrus clichés.
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.
