Lime Basil & Mandarin Jo Malone 1991 Cologne
Lime and bergamot open with a clean, slightly bitter zest, the lime leading and the bergamot rounding its edge — bright but not sugared.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus80
- Fresh60
- Aromatic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Lilac
- Basil
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readLime and bergamot open with a clean, slightly bitter zest, the lime leading and the bergamot rounding its edge — bright but not sugared.
Basil enters within minutes, herbal and slightly anise-tinged, and is the move that lifts this past a straight cologne. Iris adds a cool, earthy-rooty greyness behind the citrus rather than its powdered side, keeping the heart dry and composed.
The drydown shifts into amberwood and vetiver, with patchouli adding a low cocoa-earth shadow. The overall character stays linear and groomed — a citrus cologne with a herbal-woody spine. Projection is moderate in the first hour and the trail settles close to skin, wearing easily through warm office days.
Scent twins
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