Le Vie di Milano - Alba sui Navigli
Basil and lime open with a sharp, herbal-citrus snap that is green and slightly bitter — closer to a freshly cut kitchen garden than a sweet citrus spray.
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.
- Green80
- Herbal70
- Aromatic70
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Lime
- Petitgrain
- Vetiver
- Ambroxan
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBasil and lime open with a sharp, herbal-citrus snap that is green and slightly bitter — closer to a freshly cut kitchen garden than a sweet citrus spray. The combination is dry and direct, without the sugary overlay common to many lime-forward compositions.
Petitgrain sustains the aromatic green quality through the heart, adding a woody, slightly smoky bitterness. Vetiver in the base grounds everything with its dry, earthy texture, while ambroxan lifts the skin-warmth and musk keeps the dry-down clean. This is a restrained, linear cologne-style fragrance — minimal and functional rather than complex. Best suited to warm weather and understated daytime contexts.
Scent twins
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