Chypre-Siam
Basil opens sharp and green-herbal, with a faint medicinal edge that suggests intent rather than accident.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Animalic90
- Leather90
- White Floral60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Civet
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens sharp and green-herbal, with a faint medicinal edge that suggests intent rather than accident. It does not linger long before the composition shifts toward its more animalic territory.
Ylang-ylang unfolds in the heart with its characteristic heavy, rubbery-floral density. Rather than softening it, the base materials — civet, leather, benzoin — pull it toward something darker and more carnal. Benzoin contributes a faint balsamic sweetness that prevents the whole from reading as purely austere.
The base is animalic in the older sense: warm skin, worn leather, something faintly unwashed. Sandalwood smooths the edges without sanitising them. This is a fragrance built around deliberate friction.
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.
