Le Violon
Le Violon opens with mint, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot — a four-citrus ensemble that reads bright and clean with a cooling herbal edge from the mint.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Neroli
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readLe Violon opens with mint, lemon, grapefruit, and bergamot — a four-citrus ensemble that reads bright and clean with a cooling herbal edge from the mint. The opening is generous and fresh-spicy without being aggressive.
The heart is complex: neroli, vetiver, jasmine, labdanum, pink pepper, and freesia layer citrus-floral with spicy and resinous elements. The pink pepper and labdanum begin the composition's gradual shift toward warmth and depth.
The base is expansive — ginger, sandalwood, incense, ambroxan, amber, vanilla, cedar, patchouli, and nutmeg. This is a sophisticated amber-woody structure that builds through the drydown. The arc from bright citrus to warm oriental-woody is well-executed and rewarding.
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.
