Caline
Basil and neroli open green-bitter against bergamot’s sparkle, a snap of chlorophyll that frames mimosa’s soft pollen.
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.
- Green80
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Ginger
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and neroli open green-bitter against bergamot’s sparkle, a snap of chlorophyll that frames mimosa’s soft pollen. Ginger threads through the floral heart, heating jasmine and ylang-ylang so their lactonic cream bends into May rose’s honeyed petals while iris’s cool starch steadies the bouquet. Patchouli anchors the flowers in damp earth, preparing the ground for a base where moss and twin cedars lay down a forest-floor cushion dusted with dry sandalwood. Labdanum and amber slowly melt, turning the greenery into a leathery, resinous skin-warmed glow that stays cool thanks to persistent oakmoss. Projection sits at polite arm’s length, perfect for spring offices or cool summer brunches, then lingers on cuffs and scarves through fall.
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.