Cherry Almond
Violet lands cool and powdery, shading the opening with a faintly cosmetic hush that feels dry rather than sweet.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Smoky70
- Patchouli60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Patchouli
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Labdanum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readViolet lands cool and powdery, shading the opening with a faintly cosmetic hush that feels dry rather than sweet. Within minutes patchouli muscles forward, its camphoraceous bite lifting the violet while adding a loamy, almost bitter depth; rose slips underneath, softening the edges with a muted pink bloom but never turning the accord overtly floral. The base arrives early: sandalwood supplies a creamy, lactonic plank, labdanum spreads a honeyed amber resin, and vanilla folds in a rounded sweetness that catches the violet’s dust and turns it velvvet. Smoke threads everything, not as char but as the scent of extinguished candlewick, keeping the composition dry and faintly leathery. Projection stays close, a skin-scented veil that endures six to eight hours and favors cool days, scarves, and quiet rooms.
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.
