Cristal Zest
Without a stated top, the perfume opens directly on petitgrain and basil — a dry green-aromatic chord with petitgrain's bitter-citrus woody edge and basil's herbal sharpness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic60
- Green55
- Fresh50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Basil
- Oakmoss
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readWithout a stated top, the perfume opens directly on petitgrain and basil — a dry green-aromatic chord with petitgrain's bitter-citrus woody edge and basil's herbal sharpness. The combination reads as a clean Mediterranean opening.
The heart holds that bright vegetal quality with little development; the perfume's structure is relatively simple, moving toward its base fairly quickly.
Oakmoss, amber, and patchouli form the base — a small chypre triad that provides green-bitter depth from the moss, warm resinous cushion from the amber, and earthy weight from the patchouli. The drydown reads as a quiet aromatic-chypre with a faint barbershop signature, settling close to the skin. Overall a transparent, masculine-leaning aromatic with restrained personality — clean and unfussy in execution.
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.
