Demi-Jour
Violet leaf and bergamot open cool and slightly metallic, setting a crisp green-iris tone that feels like pressed linen.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Mossy70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf and bergamot open cool and slightly metallic, setting a crisp green-iris tone that feels like pressed linen. The heart piles on six white and yellow florals; heliotrope’s almond softness cushions jasmine’s indolic cream while ylang-ylang adds a banana-sweet lift, all filtered through iris powder so the bouquet stays pastel, never syrupy. Dry-down folds the flowers into dry sandalwood and clean cedar, letting oakmoss supply a quiet forest-floor bitterness that keeps the musk from turning plush. Projection stays polite—arm-length halo for four hours—then collapses to a matte, violet-tinged skin musk that survives a workday. Best in cool spring or fall offices where discretion is currency; the mossy undercurrent also tolerates humid drizzle without turning sour.
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.
