À L'Apogée de Vert
The opening is unusually loaded — basil's anise-green sharpness tangles with galbanum's leafy bitterness, while grapefruit adds citrus zing and jasmine, ylang, and rose contribute a heady floral chord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Balsamic70
- Aromatic60
- Woody60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Grapefruit
- Galbanum
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is unusually loaded — basil's anise-green sharpness tangles with galbanum's leafy bitterness, while grapefruit adds citrus zing and jasmine, ylang, and rose contribute a heady floral chord. The result is dense and herbaceous from the first breath.
The heart turns resinous and earthy. Frankincense adds a smoky-balsamic warmth, sandalwood provides a creamy woody backbone, patchouli deepens the earthiness, and nutmeg threads a brown-spice warmth through the middle. The composition pivots from green-floral to dark-resinous.
Labdanum at the base is the anchor — sweet, slightly leathery, and deeply balsamic. The overall character is a green-floral-aromatic top resolving into a smoky-balsamic woody base, complex and slightly retro in feel.
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.
