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Violet leaf opens with a cold, slightly metallic green quality — sharp and vegetal rather than floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Patchouli60
- Aquatic50
- Rose50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a cold, slightly metallic green quality — sharp and vegetal rather than floral. Rose arrives in the heart but feels restrained, its softness compressed by what follows: leather, patchouli, and cedar build quickly, turning the composition away from florals and toward something drier and more austere.
The base is unambiguously dark. Leather dominates, with patchouli adding earthy density and sandalwood providing a subtle creaminess underneath. This is a rooted, no-sentiment rose-leather composition — the rose reads as a structural accent rather than the focal point. Suited to cool weather and deliberate wear.
Scent twins
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