Violets for My Furs
Grapefruit offers a brief, tangy sparkle that quickly recedes to make way for the dominant violet accord.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Violet80
- Powdery60
- Fresh50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Orange Blossom
- Violet
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit offers a brief, tangy sparkle that quickly recedes to make way for the dominant violet accord. Violet emerges as powdery and slightly sweet, evoking the texture of makeup or old-fashioned candies. Orange blossom adds a subtle floral brightness that lightens the violet's potentially heavy character. Vanilla in the base provides a warm, creamy foundation that smooths out the powdery edges and adds a comforting sweetness. The scent remains close to the skin with minimal sillage, creating an intimate and nostalgic aura. Longevity is moderate, lasting several hours, and it feels most appropriate for cool-weather daytime wear.
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.
