Basilico & Fellini
A green Mediterranean dream centered on basil so vivid it's almost bruising—peppery, anise-edged, the smell of torn leaves rather than dried spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Fig Leaf80
- Green70
- Vetiver60
- Black Pepper50
- Iris Powder40
By the editors · 2 min readA green Mediterranean dream centered on basil so vivid it's almost bruising—peppery, anise-edged, the smell of torn leaves rather than dried spice. Violet appears quickly, lending a soft, soapy powder that tames the herb's sharpness without smothering it, while fig adds a milky, slightly latex-like sweetness that feels sun-warmed and tactile.
As it settles, vetiver grounds the composition with earthy, root-cellar coolness, but this remains fundamentally a basil fragrance throughout. The interplay between the herb's brightness and violet's old-fashioned softness creates something oddly nostalgic—less Italian garden than the memory of one, filtered through black-and-white film.
Best suited to those who find most green scents too polite or too aquatic, and who don't mind smelling decidedly herbal. It's unisex in the way that linen shirts and good olive oil are unisex—unpretentious, direct, unapologetically itself.
