Purple Suede
Leather, lavender, and pink pepper open in an unusual triangulation: the lavender's herbal cool and the pink pepper's dry buzz framing a soft, suede-like leather rather than tannic hide.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Leather75
- Woody65
- Mossy55
- Lavender
The note pyramid
- Leather
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Oakmoss
- Civet
- Amber
- Cashmeran
By the editors · 2 min readLeather, lavender, and pink pepper open in an unusual triangulation: the lavender's herbal cool and the pink pepper's dry buzz framing a soft, suede-like leather rather than tannic hide. The opening reads aromatic and slightly powdery rather than animalic.
With no heart specified, the composition moves quickly into its base. Oakmoss and patchouli ground the suede in a chypre-adjacent earthiness, while civet adds a low animalic undertone that warms the leather without going feral.
Amber and cashmeran round the drydown into a plush, woody-musky finish with a velvety texture. The result is a modern suede-chypre, dry and refined, suited to cooler weather and dressed-up occasions.
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.
