Voile Confit
Voile Confit opens with a flurry of contradictions—violet leaf's metallic greenness cut through with blood orange's tart sweetness and ginger's warm bite.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Caramel70
- Vanilla60
- Amber15
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Violet Leaf
- Blood Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readVoile Confit opens with a flurry of contradictions—violet leaf's metallic greenness cut through with blood orange's tart sweetness and ginger's warm bite. The citrus feels candied rather than fresh, as though the fruits have been preserved in syrup and left to macerate. This sugared brightness doesn't last long before heliotrope takes over, bringing its characteristic almond-powder softness and a nostalgic, almost Play-Doh sweetness that some find comforting and others slightly cloying.
The base settles into a gauzy sandalwood-vanilla blend with caramel accents, kept from total dessert territory by vetiver's earthy restraint and a whisper of patchouli. The musk remains polite, never animalic. What emerges is a skin scent that hovers between gourmand and floral—transparent enough to feel delicate (the "voile"), rich enough to suggest confection. It wears close and fades quickly, making it more suited to those who want fragrance as an intimate gesture rather than a projection piece.
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.