Kazehikaru
Violet opens cool and powdery, immediately settling into a muted purple hush that feels like pressed petals.
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.
- Violet80
- Oud60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Orange Blossom
- Sandalwood
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens cool and powdery, immediately settling into a muted purple hush that feels like pressed petals. Orange blossom arrives within minutes, lifting the violet with a clean, soap-bright fluorescence that keeps the composition airy rather than sweet. The heart phase is brief; sandalwood and oud merge early, the sandalwood providing a creamy, blond-wood cushion while the oud delivers a dry, medicinal rasp that shadows the florals without turning animalic. As the skin warms, the violet re-emerges dusted over the woody base, creating a soft, paper-thin layer that hovers close. Projection stays polite—an arm-length veil—so the scent reads as personal stationery rather than announcement. Cool spring mornings and quiet office days are its natural habitat, where whispered woods and washed petals can breathe. Longevity lands at six hours before it folds into laundered skin.
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.
