Indigo Vanilla
Bergamot opens cleanly, briefly, before cardamom and violet take the lead.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Violet70
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Vetiver
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly, briefly, before cardamom and violet take the lead. The cardamom is cool and slightly smoky rather than warm-spicy, and the violet sits next to it powdery and metallic — an unusual pairing that reads more incense-violet than candy-violet.
Despite the name, vanilla doesn't appear in the pyramid; the base is vetiver and amber, dry and balsamic, lending a smoky-earthy floor under the violet. The composition stays cool throughout, never tipping warm or sweet.
The overall character is austere and slightly haunted, a smoky violet over dry resin and root. Sparse architecture, but the materials sit clearly. Cool-weather wear, holds close to skin once the bergamot has burned off.
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.
