Black Tie Affair
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot’s bright citrus to create a crisp, almost aquatic green top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot’s bright citrus to create a crisp, almost aquatic green top. Black pepper crackles in the heart, warming lily of the valley’s clean dew and giving the rose a peppered satin edge rather than classic sweetness. Ambergris washes in with a salty, skin-like musk that softens patchouli’s earthiness into a grey, mineral glow riding close to the body. The scent stays sheer and transparent, never heavy, projecting no farther than handshake distance for five to six hours. Office-safe year-round, it reads like a pressed white shirt: sharp at first, then quietly clean.
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.
