Cuir Fleurissant
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through orange blossom’s creamy sweetness to create a sharp green-floral tension.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Leather90
- Violet70
- Floral60
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Orange Blossom
- Orris
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Smoke
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through orange blossom’s creamy sweetness to create a sharp green-floral tension. The heart layers orris butter and ylang-ylang, letting their powdery-banalic facets soften violet while lily of the valley injects watery transparency; damask rose adds a faintly spiced petal depth that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary. Smoke coils quietly beneath the flowers, foreshadowing the base where castoreum and styrax fuse with patchouli into a matte, tar-flecked leather that smells like newly-dyed suede left overnight in a florist’s refrigerator. Over hours the musk amplifies, turning the composition into a skin-print of violet-tinted hide with a residual ambery glow from opoponax. Projection stays within arm’s length; wear it in cool weather when you want florals without confection.
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.
