Cuir Nilam
Violet leaf opens bitter-green, its metallic edge slicing through cardamom’s cool, camphor snap, creating an aromatic frost that feels like crushed stems on cold steel.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic50
- Rose50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Rose
- Tobacco
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens bitter-green, its metallic edge slicing through cardamom’s cool, camphor snap, creating an aromatic frost that feels like crushed stems on cold steel. Leather heart arrives immediately, a matte-black hide still warm from the tannery, stitched to a dry rose that donates only papery petals, no sweetness, letting the hide stay starkly masculine. Tobacco and patchouli fuse in the base, the leaf’s brown dryness amplifying patchouli’s chocolate-earth facets while canceling its minty top; the result is a smoky, softly-spiced leather accord that lingers for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for cool autumn evenings or a crisp-shirt office day when you want quiet authority without sweetness.
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.