Queens & Monsters
Petitgrain and violet leaf open bittersweet and stemmy — a green, slightly metallic snap that reads more like crushed leaves than fruit or flower.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and violet leaf open bittersweet and stemmy — a green, slightly metallic snap that reads more like crushed leaves than fruit or flower. The opening has an almost ozonic clarity.
The heart is a careful jasmine-freesia pairing, neither indolic nor sugared. The flowers stay translucent, picking up the green from the top and carrying it into a clean, dewy white-floral phase that never goes lush.
The base shifts to a modern woody-amber accord. Sandalwood and ambroxan provide a salt-skin radiance, and patchouli keeps things from turning fully clean-musk. Overall character is fresh and minimalist, more about light and air than depth, with a soft violet-tinged finish that suits work hours and warm weather.
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.
