Love in Idleness
A small, powdery violet built on a raspberry-and-leaf opening — the fruit reads jam-bright for a moment before violet leaf folds it back into something cooler and greener.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Iris55
- Patchouli55
- Fresh50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Raspberry
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Violet
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readA small, powdery violet built on a raspberry-and-leaf opening — the fruit reads jam-bright for a moment before violet leaf folds it back into something cooler and greener.
The heart is the central conceit: violet flower and iris stacked over heliotrope. Iris gives the cold powder, heliotrope gives the marzipan warmth, and the violet sits in the middle with its candied wet-petal character. The composition reads as a Victorian sweet — soft, faintly cosmetic, never fresh-floral.
The drydown is the dark twist: oakmoss and patchouli pull the powder into chypre territory, giving the violet a velvet shadow rather than a sugar one. Close to the skin after an hour, with a dusty heliotrope-iris trail that lingers longer than the fruit suggested.
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.
