Verbena
Crisp apple slices meet crushed basil in the opening, releasing a tart green snap that the airy freesia quickly softens with cool, watery petals.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Green70
- White Floral60
- Fruity50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Basil
- Freesia
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
- Bamboo
By the editors · 2 min readCrisp apple slices meet crushed basil in the opening, releasing a tart green snap that the airy freesia quickly softens with cool, watery petals. The heart amplifies this dewy character: lily of the valley and orange blossom layer transparent white florals over hollow bamboo stalks, creating a wet-stem accord that keeps the fruit from turning sweet. As the mist dries, vetiver and cedar bring dry, blond wood grain, while honey thickens the air just enough to catch the remaining bloom; amber acts as a muted sun-warmed backdrop rather than a statement. On skin it stays close, projecting arm’s-length for three hours before collapsing into a clean wood hum. Quiet office days, spring rain, and post-gym showers fit its understated, freshly laundered presence.
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.
