Be Desired
Violet leaf opens green and metallic, slicing through the citrus oils to create a cool, dewy accord that reads almost aquatic.
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.
- Green70
- Citrus60
- Fresh50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Amberwood
- Cashmeran
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens green and metallic, slicing through the citrus oils to create a cool, dewy accord that reads almost aquatic. The grapefruit and orange quickly fold into this leafy shade, producing a tart, watery brightness that feels like crushed ice pressed against skin. Amberwood arrives early, its synthetic ambergris facet warming the chilled top while cashmeran’s musky blond wood stretches the composition into a clean skin-wash dry-down. What begins as a crisp shower gel evolves into a soft, grey wood veil that hovers just above the body, never loud but persistent. Projection stays arm’s length for four hours before collapsing to a cottony skin scent. Best worn to the office on humid spring mornings when you want to smell freshly laundered rather than perfumed.
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.




