Inside Out
Basil opens with a sharp, green-herbal bite — cool rather than culinary, with a slightly anise-adjacent edge.
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.
- Herbal80
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Rosemary
- Magnolia
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBasil opens with a sharp, green-herbal bite — cool rather than culinary, with a slightly anise-adjacent edge. It immediately signals something more aromatic than floral, cutting and direct.
Rosemary reinforces the herbal character in the heart, adding a slightly camphorous quality. Magnolia introduces a soft, mildly sweet floral note that tempers the sharp edges without fully softening them. The contrast between the herbaceous and the floral is where most of the composition's character lives.
Vanilla grounds the drydown, warming the herbal construction into something more approachable. The overall arc runs from sharp green-aromatic to a gently sweetened finish. Wears close to the skin, moderate in complexity.
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.
