Helioflora
Basil leads with a clean, slightly peppery edge — aromatic rather than culinary.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Apricot
- Sandalwood
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readBasil leads with a clean, slightly peppery edge — aromatic rather than culinary. Apricot sits right beneath it, soft and slightly milky rather than sharp or jammy, suggesting ripeness without loudness.
With only three disclosed notes, the composition stays relatively simple. Sandalwood provides a pale, smooth base that lets the apricot read as almost lactonic — a gentle, skin-close warmth that develops slowly rather than shifting dramatically.
The overall impression is quiet and intimate: a fruit-forward scent with herbal lift and a creamy, woody dry-down. It reads best up close, with a softness that suits warm-weather wear rather than projecting into a room.
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.
