Black Violet
Violet leaf and violet flower open cool and slightly metallic, their green edge sharpened by star anise that adds a licorice snap.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Violet
- Star Anise
- Heliotrope
- Damask Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf and violet flower open cool and slightly metallic, their green edge sharpened by star anise that adds a licorice snap. Heliotrope drifts in with almond-like powder, softening the green and letting damask rose bloom in a plush, jammy heart. Raspberry lands early in the base, its tart sweetness threading through the musk and labdanum, turning the dry-down into a suede-fruity skin scent rather than a true dark violet. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the wear, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. Works best in cool spring or mild fall weather when the fruity musk won’t turn cloying.
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.
