Basil
Basil by Marc Jacobs opens with basil and tomato leaf, a savory-green pairing that reads almost edible but stays firmly in the herbal camp.
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.
- Herbal70
- Green70
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Tomato Leaf
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Freesia
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBasil by Marc Jacobs opens with basil and tomato leaf, a savory-green pairing that reads almost edible but stays firmly in the herbal camp. The tomato leaf especially gives a sharp, vegetal quality not often encountered in mainstream perfumery.
Jasmine, orange blossom, and freesia soften the sharpness of the opening, introducing white-floral warmth that bridges the herbal top and the clean base. The transition is well-handled — the green reads less confrontational as the heart opens.
White musk and sandalwood close cleanly, allowing the herbal character to recede into a polished finish. A curated herbal-floral that rewards the curious nose.
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.
