Basala
Lavender, rosemary, basil, and clary sage unfurl together over neroli and bergamot — an aromatic-fougère opening with the herbal density of an old apothecary.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Basil
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Clary Sage
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readLavender, rosemary, basil, and clary sage unfurl together over neroli and bergamot — an aromatic-fougère opening with the herbal density of an old apothecary. The heart turns warm: cinnamon stitching through jasmine and rose, the spice doing more shaping than the florals.
The dry-down is where Basala earns its reputation — leather and labdanum over oakmoss, with amber, cedar, patchouli, musk, and a soft coconut accent rounding the structure. It plays as a 90s masculine that hasn't aged into caricature, balanced between the herbal opening and the resinous, slightly sweet base. Better suited to fall and winter; the herbal layers can read sharp in heat.
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.
