Chef's Table
Opens with a kitchen-garden snap: sage, basil, and bergamot together, the sage's slightly camphorous bitterness anchoring basil's green-anise lift.
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.
- Herbal85
- Aromatic80
- Fresh Spicy65
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Basil
- Bergamot
- Black Currant
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readOpens with a kitchen-garden snap: sage, basil, and bergamot together, the sage's slightly camphorous bitterness anchoring basil's green-anise lift. The first minutes read as freshly torn herbs over citrus peel, more cooking countertop than fragrance counter.
The heart simplifies dramatically. Black currant arrives with its sharp, slightly catty fruit-and-leaf character, the cassis playing tartly against the herbs that haven't fully faded. The middle is where the composition reveals its conceit — a savory-fruit pairing rather than a floral one.
The drydown softens onto tonka, ambergris, clary sage, and musk. Tonka adds a warm hay sweetness, the ambergris-musk pairing gives a salty animalic lift, and clary sage echoes the herbal opening. Slightly leathery, slightly salty, distinctly chef-coded throughout.
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.
