Hawthorn Bloom
Violet opens cool and slightly metallic, a thin purple haze that feels like pressing your face against early-morning petals still filmed with dew.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Orris
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens cool and slightly metallic, a thin purple haze that feels like pressing your face against early-morning petals still filmed with dew. Jasmine and lily-of-the-valley arrive within minutes, pumping lush white pollen through the violet frame so the heart smells like a shaded garden border after rain, earth still breathing underneath. Orris butter slowly fuses with the lingering violet, turning the bouquet suede-soft while patchouli offers a quiet cocoa-like grit that keeps the florals from floating away. Musk sheathes everything in clean skin, extending the iris-violet accord for hours so the scent stays low, velvety, and private rather than announcing itself across a room. Projection stays close; best for office days and cool spring afternoons when you want to smell like your own shirt rather than a flower stall.
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.