Silver Flame
Violet leaf and bergamot open with a cool, slightly metallic green — violet leaf brings cucumber-skin freshness rather than flower, and bergamot lays a clean citrus floor.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Floral55
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Black Pepper
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf and bergamot open with a cool, slightly metallic green — violet leaf brings cucumber-skin freshness rather than flower, and bergamot lays a clean citrus floor. The entry reads crisp and almost ozonic.
Black pepper sharpens the heart with a dry, peppery prickle that plays against lily of the valley's dewy white-floral lift. Rose threads through, more pink than red, contributing softness without sweetness. The middle stays transparent and aromatic rather than lush.
Ambergris, vanilla, and patchouli anchor a base warmer than the top suggests. Ambergris adds salty-musky glow, vanilla a thin creaminess, patchouli an earthy purple depth that grounds the floral-fresh opening. A clean fresh-spicy floral, workday-friendly, transitional-season.
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.
