Night Shift
Violet leaf opens with a cold, metallic greenery that smells like crushed stems and rain-soaked sidewalk.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Green70
- Aromatic60
- Fresh50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Lavender
- Ambergris
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a cold, metallic greenery that smells like crushed stems and rain-soaked sidewalk. Lavender enters immediately, folding its camphorous herbal side into the violet’s watery chill, creating a dusty-purple accord that feels both airy and slightly salty. The heart stays locked here; no florals bloom, no citrus lifts. Instead, ambergris creeps up from below, lending a low-tide mineral warmth that softens the greens without adding sweetness. Patchouli arrives late, earthy and unsweetened, anchoring the composition in grey-brown soil while the ambergris continues to radiate a skin-close whisper. Projection stays close—arm’s length at best—and the scent lingers as a cool, linen-like veil for roughly six hours. Quiet office days, spring drizzle, post-gym refresh; it behaves like soap that forgot to rinse away completely.
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.
