Choc de Cardin
Basil and peach open in an unusual pairing — basil's clean herbal lift against peach's fuzzy sweetness, with lemon and bergamot threading citrus brightness through the seam.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Honey80
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Peach
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Honey
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and peach open in an unusual pairing — basil's clean herbal lift against peach's fuzzy sweetness, with lemon and bergamot threading citrus brightness through the seam. The top reads slightly retro, like a cocktail garnish.
Jasmine, lily of the valley, honey, and rose form a dense middle. Honey is the most assertive note here, adding a thick golden warmth that pulls the floral chord toward something animalic at its edges. Rose and jasmine round it out, giving the heart a full-bodied richness.
Sandalwood, oakmoss, civet, amber, patchouli, and musk close the composition into deep chypre territory — civet lending a faintly fecal-warm animalic depth, oakmoss anchoring the dry green floor. A vintage honey-floral chypre, structured and slow.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
