So French!
Lavender and bergamot open with classical fougère bones, but ylang-ylang and rose immediately push the composition feminine, lending a sweet, slightly creamy lift to the herbaceous top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Leather
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and bergamot open with classical fougère bones, but ylang-ylang and rose immediately push the composition feminine, lending a sweet, slightly creamy lift to the herbaceous top.
The heart pivots harder: iris and violet bring a cool, powdery suede texture, while leather sits openly in the middle rather than waiting for the base — giving the perfume a smoky, almost lipstick-like glamour. Jasmine threads through the powder. The base of sandalwood, patchouli, and Virginia cedar provides a dry woody platform; the leather and iris stay dominant, with musk softening the close. Projection is restrained but persistent, and the texture is cool, faintly dusty.
Overall the character is a powdered violet-iris leather — dressy, retro-cool, neither floral nor masculine in a clean sense.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
