Dzokonda
Violet opens cool and powdery, immediately wrapped by lily of the valley's crisp green soapiness and petitgrain's leafy bitterness, creating a stern, almost metallic floral frame.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Violet100
- Powdery60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Lily of the Valley
- Violet
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens cool and powdery, immediately wrapped by lily of the valley's crisp green soapiness and petitgrain's leafy bitterness, creating a stern, almost metallic floral frame. The heart thickens as jasmine's indolic creaminess and rose's honeyed petals push forward, while vetiver threads dry grass through the bouquet and patchouli adds a camphorous earthy edge that keeps the florals from turning sweet. Sandalwood's milky warmth arrives early in the dry-down, joined by amber's resinous glow and a quiet skin musk that together shave off the green stems and leave a muted, woody-powdery skin veil with a faint tobacco-like shadow. Projection stays within arm's reach for six hours, tilting office-appropriate yet carrying enough retro floral gravity for cool spring or fall afternoons when a tailored coat replaces heavy outerwear.
Scent twins
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