Guess 1981
Violet opens cool and slightly metallic — a candied-meets-leaf register, powdery without being sugary.
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
- Sandalwood
- Pear
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens cool and slightly metallic — a candied-meets-leaf register, powdery without being sugary. The first minutes have a soft purple shimmer, almost makeup-counter familiar.
The heart introduces juicy pear alongside creamy sandalwood and a soft jasmine, the fruit lifting the violet into something fresher and more wearable, sandalwood adding a milky woody cushion underneath. The transition is smooth and unhurried. The base settles into a warm amber glow with cedar's pencil-dry edge and a generous wash of clean musk — the dry-down reads cozy and slightly powdery, projecting close to the skin within an hour or two.
The overall character is soft, modern, and approachable — a violet-fruit-wood blend pitched feminine and easy, the kind of scent that lingers as a warm whisper.
Scent twins
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