Eau de Cologne 1920: Fidèle Violette
Fidèle Violette opens with violet leaf — cool, green, and slightly metallic — before the heart of jasmine, violet flower, and rose fills in the composition with a classic, soft floral character.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Violet80
- Floral70
- Fresh50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Rose
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readFidèle Violette opens with violet leaf — cool, green, and slightly metallic — before the heart of jasmine, violet flower, and rose fills in the composition with a classic, soft floral character. The violet here is twofold: the sharp greenness of the leaf and the sweet, slightly powdery quality of the flower itself.
White musk in the base keeps the drydown clean and close. The composition reads as a faithful, understated violet soliflore surrounded by jasmine and rose support. It is transparent and delicate, well-suited to spring and summer wear, particularly in warmer conditions where the coolness of the violet leaf provides a welcome counterpoint. Not complex, but properly composed.
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.




