Tentation de Violettes
Raspberry and black currant arrive first, bright and tart, with pink pepper adding a dry crackle behind them.
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.
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Pink Pepper
- Black Currant
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry and black currant arrive first, bright and tart, with pink pepper adding a dry crackle behind them. The fruity opening is vivid but not jammy, leaning more cool-berry than sweet.
Violet takes over in the heart with real presence — both floral and slightly earthy, bridged to iris and heliotrope in the base. The heliotrope adds a powdery, faintly almond-like warmth that smooths the transition to sandalwood. The sandalwood keeps things from becoming too abstract or floral-abstract.
The result is a violet-iris soliflore with fruity scaffolding — coherent and somewhat linear once the top fades. Wearable across seasons, it suits everyday use without demanding attention.
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.
