Elegantnost
Apple, raspberry, and black currant open fruit-forward but slightly tart — enough bite to keep the composition from sliding into dessert territory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Iris55
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Raspberry
- Black Currant
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readApple, raspberry, and black currant open fruit-forward but slightly tart — enough bite to keep the composition from sliding into dessert territory. The heart is busier: violet leaf adds a green metallic edge while jasmine, iris, and violet together build a powdery floral core.
Vanilla, musk, and praline anchor the base, where the iris reads as cool and powdery against the sweet almond-caramel of the praline. The tension between the powdery florals and the gourmand sugar is what gives the perfume its character. Wears comfortably in cool weather without needing an occasion.
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.
