Basso
Grapefruit cracks open the bottle with a tart, sun-bleached zip, but the citrus is already shadowed by a green peppery edge that signals the composition has more on its mind than freshness alone.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Labdanum
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Black Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit cracks open the bottle with a tart, sun-bleached zip, but the citrus is already shadowed by a green peppery edge that signals the composition has more on its mind than freshness alone.
Labdanum settles into the heart with a sticky resinous warmth, anchoring the volatile top. From there the construction unfolds into a chypre-leaning architecture — oakmoss, vetiver, guaiac and cedar layered with pink and black pepper, nutmeg threading through, galbanum keeping the green pulse alive.
The drydown is dry, mineral and slightly smoked, the moss earthy underfoot. Overall the perfume reads as a structured masculine in a vintage register, polished but not soft, holding its shape with quiet conviction.
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.
