Violet Noir
Violet Noir opens with grapefruit brightness that quickly gives way to a dense floral core.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Iris90
- Powdery60
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
- Iris
- Rose
- Rose
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readViolet Noir opens with grapefruit brightness that quickly gives way to a dense floral core. Orange blossom and iris dominate the heart, lending a creamy, powdery quality that sits somewhere between a fresh white flower and a cool, rooty iris. The rose adds depth without sweetness.
As it dries down, amber and patchouli take over, grounding the composition in a warm, resinous base. The musk keeps things skin-adjacent rather than loud, pulling the florals close rather than projecting them outward.
Overall, this reads as a powdery floral oriental — unambiguous in its femininity, composed around the iris-amber axis, with enough patchouli to give it lasting earthy warmth.
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.
