1996 Inez & Vinoodh
The violet announces itself immediately—cool, almost bruised, with a metallic edge that feels more darkroom than garden.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris75
- Leather72
- Patchouli58
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Violet
- Leather
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readThe violet announces itself immediately—cool, almost bruised, with a metallic edge that feels more darkroom than garden. Iris joins quickly, powdery but restrained, lending a grey-silver quality that suggests film grain or wet concrete rather than cosmetics.
As it settles, leather emerges with surprising softness, more like worn suede than biker jacket. The amber and patchouli add weight without sweetness, creating a base that feels muted and deliberate. The violet never quite disappears, threading through the composition like a cold current.
This is fragrance as black-and-white photography—high contrast, edited down, intentionally austere. It suits someone who appreciates restraint and finds beauty in shadows. The 1996 in the name references fashion photography's rawer era, and that unsentimental quality comes through clearly.
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.
