L'Esprit Libre
Violet leaf opens with a crisp, green snap that feels almost aquatic, its watery facets amplified by bergamot’s cool citrus sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Violet70
- Iris60
- Green60
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Peony
- Iris
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a crisp, green snap that feels almost aquatic, its watery facets amplified by bergamot’s cool citrus sparkle. The heart swells with magnolia’s creamy lemon-tinged petals and peony’s airy pink volume, while iris adds a cool, chalky iris-powder bridge that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary. Cashmeran’s fuzzy wood and clean musk creep in early, sheathing the florals in a transparent synthetic veil that mutes projection but extends wear. Ambergris lends a saline skin-skin warmth at the base, letting cedar shavings peek through without ever dominating the soft, pastel wash. The result stays close, a fresh-laundry skin veil that shifts from dewy green to pale iris woods over six hours, perfect for spring office days.
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.