Tribu
Tribu announces itself with a striking violet leaf note that smells more metallic and green than floral, cooled by tart black currant.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Mossy70
- Green65
- Rose55
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Black Currant
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readTribu announces itself with a striking violet leaf note that smells more metallic and green than floral, cooled by tart black currant. It's an unexpected introduction that feels less like the fresh citrus openings common to nineties fragrances and more like walking past damp stone walls overgrown with ivy. The effect is both clean and slightly shadowed.
As it develops, Bulgarian rose and ylang-ylang provide a classic floral heart, but they never fully soften the austere edge established at the start. The rose reads crisp rather than romantic, while the ylang adds a faint creaminess without turning sweet. Sandalwood, oakmoss, and benzoin create a base that recalls the mossy chypre tradition, grounding the composition in something earthy and subtly resinous.
The overall impression is of a fragrance that straddles two eras—too green and angular for pure romanticism, yet too classically structured for the aquatic wave that would soon dominate. It suits someone who prefers their florals with an edge of austerity.
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.
