Ghost Anticipation
Violet opens cool and slightly metallic, its powdery edge already softening the top.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Orange Blossom
- Peony
- Freesia
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens cool and slightly metallic, its powdery edge already softening the top. Orange blossom steps in quickly, adding a creamy white-floral lift that keeps the violet from turning too cosmetic-powder. Peony and freesia together weave a sheer, watery floral heart, letting the composition breathe while vanilla begins to warm the base. As the flowers settle, vanilla’s lactonic sweetness merges with the lingering violet, creating a pastel skin-scent halo that stays close. Projection stays polite, a whisper rather than a statement; it feels made for office air-conditioning or spring weekend errands. The structure is simple, almost linear, yet the violet-vanilla accord holds enough contrast to keep it interesting for four-to-five calm hours.
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.