First Instinct Extreme
The violet leaf opens sharp and almost metallic, cutting through with a green astringency that's immediately grounded by cardamom's warmth and saffron's leathery depth.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Leather80
- Amber65
- Iris30
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Amber
- Suede
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe violet leaf opens sharp and almost metallic, cutting through with a green astringency that's immediately grounded by cardamom's warmth and saffron's leathery depth. This is a more muscular iteration of the original First Instinct, turning up the contrast between crisp aromatic facets and something heavier lurking beneath.
As it settles, suede emerges with a tactile, almost powdery softness that tempers the sharper elements. The amber and musk provide a smooth, skin-close base that feels modern rather than vintage—more gym bag leather than antique smoking jacket. The violet leaf never entirely disappears, maintaining a cool edge against the warmth.
This is designed for someone who wants presence without volume, a fragrance that projects confidence in close quarters rather than across a room. It skews younger and more casual than traditional woody orientals, best suited to evenings out where you want to smell deliberate without announcing yourself from a distance.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
