Homem Cromo
Basil opens green and slightly peppery, cutting through the lime-grapefruit brightness to create an aromatic citrus accord that feels simultaneously fresh and slightly savory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Tobacco80
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Cedar
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens green and slightly peppery, cutting through the lime-grapefruit brightness to create an aromatic citrus accord that feels simultaneously fresh and slightly savory. The heart introduces cedar as a dry, pencil-shave wood that carries the tobacco leaf forward, while patchouli adds an earthy sweetness that softens the tobacco's raw edge without hiding its brown, hay-like character. On skin the tobacco intensifies, merging with the leather to produce a matte, suede-like texture that dominates the mid-stage, while vetiver contributes a rooty, slightly bitter green that keeps the composition from turning sweet. The dry-down remains tobacco-centric, now joined by patchouli's cocoa-brown earth and the continued presence of cedar, creating a woody-leather accord that projects two feet for roughly six hours before settling closer to the skin.
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.
