Whitewater Rush
Violet leaf opens with a crisp, watery green snap that feels like crushed stems left in cold running water, immediately setting a cool temperature.
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.
- Lavender90
- Green70
- Fresh50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a crisp, watery green snap that feels like crushed stems left in cold running water, immediately setting a cool temperature. Bergamot’s citrus edge flashes metallic for five minutes, then the lavender heart slides in, drying the greenery with a clean-barbershop steam that mutes the fruit. Sandalwood and vetiver anchor the base as a pale blond wood accord; the sandalwood’s lactonic cream softens vetiver’s rooty bite, so the scent ends smelling like wet driftwood rinsed by mineral-rich river spray rather than earthy soil. Projection stays within arm’s length for about four hours, making it office-safe yet still recognizably outdoorsy. Works best in spring and early summer mornings when humidity is low and you want shower-fresh 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.




