Agua de Sándalo
Violet leaf opens cool and crushed-green, its metallic edge slicing through bergamot’s brief citrus sparkle to create an instantly watery transparency.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Ginger
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and crushed-green, its metallic edge slicing through bergamot’s brief citrus sparkle to create an instantly watery transparency. Ginger lands next, sharpening the green with a peppercard-like heat while nutmeg dusts the heart with soft brown spice, keeping the structure airy rather than sweet. Sandalwood dominates the dry-down, its creamy Australian profile warmed by Virginia cedar’s pencil-shave dryness so the wood feels both clean and lightly resinous. On skin the violet leaf lingers longer than expected, turning the ginger into a cool aquatic shimmer that stays within shirt distance for roughly five hours. Projection is office-polite, sillage settles to skin-scent after two hours, making it a low-risk summer workday option that reads freshly showered rather than perfumed.
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.
