Potion for Woman
Bergamot flashes cool and green, then violet lands with a powdery violet-leaf edge that smells like ironed linen.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- White Floral70
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Blackcurrant
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Rhubarb
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes cool and green, then violet lands with a powdery violet-leaf edge that smells like ironed linen. Jasmine, lily of the valley and rose bloom together, creating a clean white-floral heart that keeps the violet’s dustiness on a tight leash. As the petals fade, vanilla thickens the air while patchouli adds a dry cocoa facet that stops the sweetness from turning syrupy. White musk finishes the job, locking the flowers and woods into a skin-close haze that stays soft but persistent. Projection stays within handshake distance; it works best in spring office or daytime travel when you want polite prettiness that won’t fill the elevator.
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.
