Stephen Jones Millinery
Violet leaf opens with a sharp, green-metallic snap that immediately stains the rose's petals with a cool, stem-water bitterness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Rose
- Guaiac Wood
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Smoke
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a sharp, green-metallic snap that immediately stains the rose's petals with a cool, stem-water bitterness. The heart thickens as guaiac wood and heliotrope sand the edges, letting jasmine add a humid creaminess while smoke coils through the violets, turning the accord into hot iron pressed on petals. Cumin surfaces early in the dry-down, its sweaty spice riding vetiver's rooty smoke to create a dusty, almost pickle-brine undertone against the lingering amber glow. On skin the scent stays angular, the floral core never fully softening because the smoke and spice keep slicing through. Projection sits at arm's length for six hours, then collapses to a cumin-tinted skin whisper. Cool autumn days, gallery openings, anything that rewards a slightly sour violet scowl.
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.
