Splash - The Basil 2008
Basil dominates the opening with a crisp, peppery green bite sharpened by lemon's tart zest; tomato leaf adds a vegetal water-green facet that keeps the herbs from turning medicinal.
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.
- Fresh50
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Tomato Leaf
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
- Freesia
By the editors · 2 min readBasil dominates the opening with a crisp, peppery green bite sharpened by lemon's tart zest; tomato leaf adds a vegetal water-green facet that keeps the herbs from turning medicinal. Jasmine and orange blossom arrive quickly, their white-petal sweetness softening the greens while freesia injects a cool, airy lift so the heart never cloys. As the florals recede, sandalwood supplies dry creaminess and a clean skin musk shepherds the accord into a muted, close-wearing wood that still carries a faint basil echo. Projection stays arm-length for about four hours, making it an easy daytime scent for warm spring weekends or casual summer office wear. The composition is linear after the first thirty minutes, so what you test on paper is what lingers on skin.
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.
