Violet Ends
Black pepper and bergamot cut through immediately, dry and slightly abrasive, with violet adding a faint powdery coolness underneath.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Olibanum
- Tobacco
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and bergamot cut through immediately, dry and slightly abrasive, with violet adding a faint powdery coolness underneath. The opening feels intentionally spare — angular rather than soft.
As it develops, olibanum and tobacco push through, giving the heart a resinous, slightly burnt quality. Iris keeps things from going fully rough, lending a dry, rooty counterpoint to the tobacco's warmth.
Leather and birch settle into the base, anchoring the fragrance in a cool, smoke-adjacent dryness. Papyrus adds a papery, arid finish. The overall effect is deliberately unpolished — a linear leather-tobacco structure with just enough botanical sharpness to hold interest.
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.
