Carmen
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot's bright citrus to create a crisp, green-tinged introduction.
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.
- White Floral80
- Yellow Floral70
- Violet60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Bulgarian Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot's bright citrus to create a crisp, green-tinged introduction. The heart reveals tuberose dominating Bulgarian rose and ylang-ylang, forming a creamy white-floral bouquet that softens the sharp green edges while maintaining floral intensity. Ambergris emerges gradually, lending a salty, skin-like warmth that blends with iris's powdery elegance, creating a sophisticated dry-down that balances floral opulence with mineral depth. Projection remains close to skin with moderate longevity, making it office-appropriate despite the dramatic florals. The composition's vintage character shows through its powdery iris-ambergris base, suggesting fall and winter wearality for professional or formal settings where subtle floral sophistication is preferred.
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.
