Balenciaga Paris l'Edition Reflets
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, its green bite sharpened by a crackle of black and pink pepper that flashes brief heat before subsiding.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Violet90
- Green70
- Woody60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Violet
- Vetiver
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, its green bite sharpened by a crackle of black and pink pepper that flashes brief heat before subsiding. The heart keeps the violet accord stripped to its stem, letting the airy petal facet ride over the still-present leafy bitterness while vetiver adds a dry, grassy spine. Cedar arrives early, shearing off any plush sweetness and locking the composition into a taut woody green line that stays close to the skin for hours. Patchouli surfaces late, lending a muted earthy hum that anchors the violet without tilt toward confectionery. Projection stays polite, a low-voltage office scent best worn spring through early fall when crisp air can animate its cool violet frame.
Scent twins
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