Earthtones #3: North Woods
Basil opens with a sharp, green herbal freshness that immediately establishes an aromatic and slightly spicy character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Herbal60
- Balsamic60
- Fresh50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Fig
- Grass
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens with a sharp, green herbal freshness that immediately establishes an aromatic and slightly spicy character. The heart introduces a milky green accord from fig leaves paired with the dry, hay-like scent of grass, creating a pastoral and earthy mid-stage. A complex base of earthy vetiver, resinous labdanum, and smoky myrrh is grounded by dry oakmoss and cedar, resulting in a deeply woody and balsamic dry-down. This scent evolves significantly from a green aromatic opening to a rich, resinous forest floor accord with excellent longevity. It projects well initially before settling close to the skin, ideal for outdoor activities in fall.
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.
