Vivace
Basil and clary sage open with a sharp, herbal-green quality — slightly anise-edged and aromatic, cutting through immediately.
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.
- Cinnamon80
- Animalic70
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Clary Sage
- Cinnamon
- Patchouli
- Amber
- Castoreum
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and clary sage open with a sharp, herbal-green quality — slightly anise-edged and aromatic, cutting through immediately. The transition into cinnamon and patchouli is pronounced: warmth builds quickly, the cinnamon carrying noticeable heat while patchouli grounds everything with its dark, earthy-sweet depth.
Castoreum in the base introduces an animalic, leathery undertone that distinguishes this dry-down from standard warm-spice constructions. Amber and musk round out the finish, lending a resinous glow without fully softening the rawer elements. The overall arc moves from herbal sharpness to something considerably darker and more animalic — there's real tension between the opening and base.
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.
