Shay Rose
Violet lands cool and slightly earthy, its powdery edge already tilting the composition toward cosmetics rather than garden.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Rose50
- Violet50
- Powdery50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Rose
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet lands cool and slightly earthy, its powdery edge already tilting the composition toward cosmetics rather than garden. Rose enters within minutes, a clean, satin-petaled variety that smooths the violet’s mineral dust into a unified, lipstick-soft floral heart. With no base listed, the two petals simply drift closer to the skin, the rose turning faintly jammy while the violet keeps a cool, iris-like starch that prevents any sweetness from accumulating. The result is a seamless, lightweight veil that feels like wearing a silk scarf scented with old-fashioned face powder. Projection stays polite, a one-foot halo for three hours before it becomes a skin-whisper, ideal for office days when you want a discreet, retro floral aura rather than statement sillage.
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.