Deep Viola
Saffron and bergamot launch a bright, slightly metallic spice that crackles against cool violet petals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Leather
- Iris
- Violet
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and bergamot launch a bright, slightly metallic spice that crackles against cool violet petals. Within minutes, iris butter smooths the edges, turning the violet powdery while a supple leather accord slips underneath, adding a matte, suede-like grip. Frankincense and olibanum arrive early, fusing their lemon-peel and pine-smoke facets to the leather so the heart feels like scented gloves stored in a cedar box. The base keeps the incense theme alive: oud provides a dry, splintered wood rasp, vanilla warms the embers without overt sweetness, and the resins maintain a steady, paper-thin curl of smoke that clings to skin. Projection stays close, projecting no farther than a wool scarf, yet persists eight hours, making it ideal for cool autumn offices or intimate evening concerts where subtle detail matters more than announcement.
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.
