The Secret Night
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through galbanum’s bitter green resin while bergamot flickers briefly with citrus electricity.
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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Fennel
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through galbanum’s bitter green resin while bergamot flickers briefly with citrus electricity. The heart drops temperature further: lavender’s clean camphor meets fennel’s anise-celery snap, creating a frostbitten aromatic accord that feels like night air over concrete. Tonka bean warms the base with soft almond sweetness, but suede keeps it matte and midnight-textured, and amber adds only a low-watt glow rather than full heat. On skin the green violet leaf lingers longest, shading the tonka-suede dry-down with a ghost of urban foliage. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it office-safe yet moody enough for late-evening cafés or cool spring nights.
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.
