Vers Le Sud
Lavender opens cleanly with moderate herbal coolness — neither sharp nor sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Violet55
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Fig Leaf
- Violet
- Oakmoss
- Musk
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cleanly with moderate herbal coolness — neither sharp nor sweet. A marine quality enters quickly from the general notes, giving the opening a slightly salty, open-air texture that works well with the lavender rather than contrasting it.
Fig leaf and violet form an understated heart. Fig leaf contributes a green, slightly milky character while violet lends a light, powdery softness. Neither element is prominent, but together they keep the fragrance from feeling purely linear.
Oakmoss grounds the drydown with a dry, earthy base that has some genuine depth. Musk keeps the skin-level projection moderate. This reads as a cool-weather, outdoor fragrance — unhurried, clean, and suited more to casual use than formal 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.
