Orlo
Basil and bergamot open with a green-citrus snap that quickly folds into a busy heart where petitgrain keeps the neroli sharp, lavender adds a clean aromatic spine, and cumin injects a warm, slightly sweaty pulse.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Lavender60
- Oud60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Lavender
- Neroli
- Cumin
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bergamot open with a green-citrus snap that quickly folds into a busy heart where petitgrain keeps the neroli sharp, lavender adds a clean aromatic spine, and cumin injects a warm, slightly sweaty pulse. Ylang-ylang and cardamom smooth the rough edges, turning the mix creamy while pink pepper flickers overhead, so the overall accord reads as a fresh-aromatic leather rather than a straight cologne. In the dry-down, leather and oud dominate, yet the earlier lavender-rum pairing lingers, lending a boozy, bittersweet sheen that prevents the woods from turning too dry or animalic. Projection stays at arm’s length for the first three hours, then settles closer, making it office-friendly in moderate weather. The composition keeps shifting, so repeated wear reveals first the citrus herbs, then the spiced florals, finally the dark woody base.
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.
