Modoc
Sage and basil spearhead a cool green attack, their camphor edge slicing through lemon-grapefruit brightness to create a crisp, almost mentholated citrus accord that feels more leafy than juicy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic80
- Woody70
- Green70
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Sage
- Basil
- Orange
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Iris
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readSage and basil spearhead a cool green attack, their camphor edge slicing through lemon-grapefruit brightness to create a crisp, almost mentholated citrus accord that feels more leafy than juicy. The heart keeps vetiver front and center: its dry grass smoke filters the same citrus oils, while lavender adds a clean barbershop foil and iris dusts the background with cool, carrot-seed powder that mutes any sweetness. As the top evaporates, vetiver doubles down, joined by patchouli’s dark-chocolate earth and a quiet amber that warms without turning resinous; musk stays low, letting the rooty vetiver dominate the skin scent for hours. Projection sits at arm’s length for the first three hours, then pulls closer, making it an easy office wear through spring and cool summer mornings.
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.
