Un Zephir de Rose
Basil opens with a crisp, peppery-green snap that slices through the first rose burst, giving the flower a stem-like snap rather than velvet petals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Rose
- Anise
- Bulgarian Rose
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens with a crisp, peppery-green snap that slices through the first rose burst, giving the flower a stem-like snap rather than velvet petals. Anise threads a subtle licorice shimmer between the leaves, turning the accord cool and slightly metallic before Bulgarian rose lands in the heart with fuller, jammy weight. That heart rose is still aerated by the lingering basil, so the effect stays buoyant instead of plush, more garden breeze than boudoir pillow. Damask rose in the base keeps the theme alive but dries it down to a papery, almost tea-leaf quietness that hugs skin close. Projection stays within arm’s length for about five hours, making it an easy daytime wear that reads fresh-green rather than sweet. Cool spring mornings or shaded summer patios feel right; office-safe, yet unmistakably rosy to anyone leaning in.
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.




