Daringly Different
Violet dominates the opening, presenting a cool, candied petal facet that immediately reads powdery rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Rose50
- Iris50
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
- Lily
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet dominates the opening, presenting a cool, candied petal facet that immediately reads powdery rather than sweet. Leather enters early, not as tarry hide but as a suede-soft panel that absorbs the violet dust and adds a muted grey backdrop. Lily and rose bloom in the heart, yet stay sheer-low, their white and yellow floral oils stretching the powder into a sheer skin-like veil rather than announcing flowers. Tonka anchors the base, pouring a faintly almond-caramel warmth under the still-violet leather so the fragrance never tilts too dry or too sweet. The result wears like iris-smoke: close to skin, monochrome, and stubbornly violet-leather from first hour to last.
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.
