Violet Eyes
The opening veers softer than you might expect—peach with a faint bergamot sparkle that feels almost apologetic, like a pale watercolor wash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Amber
- Peony
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening veers softer than you might expect—peach with a faint bergamot sparkle that feels almost apologetic, like a pale watercolor wash. It doesn't announce itself so much as drift in, sweet but subdued, avoiding anything sharp or loud.
As it settles, rose and jasmine emerge without the usual white-floral brightness. They're muted, nearly powdered, leaning on peony's gentler character rather than the drama of full-blown florals. The jasmine stays polite, never indolic, while the rose reads more like dried petals than fresh blooms.
The base pulls everything into a soft-focus amber glow, with Virginia cedar adding just enough structure to keep it from dissolving entirely into sweetness. It's the sort of fragrance that hovers close to the skin, undemanding and a little melancholic—suited to someone who wants presence without projection, or who remembers the actress more for her tenderness than her spectacle.
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.
