Belle de Tanger
Violet and orris create a cool, matte face-powder accord that feels immediately dry and suede-like.
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.
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Orris
- Violet
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Violet
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readViolet and orris create a cool, matte face-powder accord that feels immediately dry and suede-like. Saffron threads a faint medicinal warmth through the iris, preventing the violet from turning candied, while pink pepper gives the top a quick metallic flicker that settles within minutes. The heart stays locked on iris: the orris butter adds a waxy, carrot-sweet thickness that keeps the violet from floating away, producing a steady iris-violet haze rather than a progression. Musk arrives late, but it is clean and cottony, so the fragrance ends as a soft, grey-purple skin stain instead of a trail. Projection sits close from the start, expanding only to handshake distance for the first hour before folding back to a private, papery whisper. Office-safe year-round, it feels coolest in humid weather when its desiccated powder can cut clamminess.
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Scent twins
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