Bois Premier
Violet leaf opens with a cool, crushed-green bite that feels like snapping a stem.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Tonka Bean
- Virginia Cedar
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
- Violet
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a cool, crushed-green bite that feels like snapping a stem. Within minutes the green folds into roasted coffee, its dry bitterness threading through cedar planks that arrive together, turning the scent into a dark woody-bean accord. Tonka soon slides underneath, adding a faint almond-sweet cream that blunts the coffee's edge and warms the cedar into something softly resinous. The dry-down keeps that cedar-tona tandem while oakmoss dusts the base with a quiet earthy fuzz, so the fragrance ends as a muted, slightly powdery wood rather than a loud gourmand. Projection stays close, wafting no farther than arm's length for about six hours, making it an easy daily woods option for cool spring or fall offices.
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.
