Sandy Papyrus
Basil opens green and slightly peppery, pushing against grapefruit’s bitter zest to create an aromatic-citrus snap that feels more kitchen garden than cologne counter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Leather60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Jasmine
- Cardamom
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens green and slightly peppery, pushing against grapefruit’s bitter zest to create an aromatic-citrus snap that feels more kitchen garden than cologne counter. Cardamom warms the transition, its resinous spice curling around jasmine’s clean indole to produce a soft leather accord before any hide appears. In the base, tonka’s sweet hay folds into sandalwood’s creamy planks, while vetiver and patchouli supply dry, earthy smoke that keeps the confection from turning sugary. Leather arrives late, a suede-like skin scent that muffles projection and anchors the wear to shirt cuffs rather than air pockets. Expect six hours of quiet evolution, best for cool spring days or over-air-conditioned offices where subtlety reads as polished restraint.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
