Colour Me White
Basil and bergamot open with a cool, peppery-green flash that feels more kitchen herb than cologne.
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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and bergamot open with a cool, peppery-green flash that feels more kitchen herb than cologne. Heart lemon amplifies the citrus, while cardamom dusts it with dry, aromatic heat, turning the accord into a lemon-pepper seasoning rather than bright cologne. Leather arrives early, blunt and synthetic, flattening the spices against a matte, vinyl wall. Vetiver adds a scratch of dry grass, amber a thin caramel glaze, and musk a clean laundry base that keeps the wear office-safe. Projection stays within arm’s length for about five hours, then collapses to skin. Quiet, polite, and slightly culinary, it works best under a blazer in cool spring or fall weather.
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.