Patchouli
Violet leaf snaps open with cold green bite before ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet custard slides underneath, tempering the leaf’s metallic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf snaps open with cold green bite before ylang-ylang’s banana-sweet custard slides underneath, tempering the leaf’s metallic edge. Patchouli arrives early, earthy and cocoa-dusted, stitched to iris by iris’s cool carrot powder, while cedar braces the heart with pencil-sharp wood that keeps the accord dry rather than syrupy. Rose petals arrive transparent, more watercolor than velvet, letting the incense triad of myrrh, frankincense and olibanum rise through the weave like cathedral smoke. Labdanum and amber warm the base into a leathered, honeyed resin that still carries the ghost of violet’s chill; vanilla rounds the corners without turning it gourmand. Projection stays polite for the first three hours, then collapses to a skin-resin tattoo perfect for collar-up autumn days or quiet evening desks. Complexity is high: every hour another resin or wood pops forward, demanding sleeve-sniff attention.
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.
