French Affair
Violet leaf, lychee, and bergamot open in an unusual combination — violet leaf sharp and green, lychee sweetly perfumed, bergamot bridging citrus and fruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
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- Aromatic50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Lychee
- Bergamot
- Atlas Cedar
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf, lychee, and bergamot open in an unusual combination — violet leaf sharp and green, lychee sweetly perfumed, bergamot bridging citrus and fruit. The opening reads modern and slightly off-kilter.
Atlas cedar takes the heart alone, pulling the composition firmly into dry woody territory. The cedar's pencil-shaving sharpness cuts the lychee sweetness without erasing it, holding tension between watery fruit and dry wood.
Oakmoss, vetiver, and patchouli close the arc with a green chypre base — earthy, slightly damp, grounded. The dry-down reads as a contemporary green-woody chypre with a faint fruit echo, projecting moderately and settling into a long earthy close. Identity is more chypre than the lychee opening suggests.
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.
