Jean Patou 1972 Eau de Toilette
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot’s bright citrus to establish a crisp green frame.
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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.
- Mossy80
- Green70
- White Floral60
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Osmanthus
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot’s bright citrus to establish a crisp green frame. Osmanthus adds a faintly leathery apricot nuance that softens the edges before jasmine, lily of the valley and rose bloom together, creating a clean white-floral heart with a soap-like lift. The bouquet is anchored by sandalwood’s creamy warmth, while patchouli brings a dry, earthy leaf tone that merges with oakmoss to form a classic mossy chypre base. On skin the green top lingers longer than expected, keeping the florals taut rather than sweet, and the dry-down stays shaded and cool, projecting a polite radius for six hours. Cool spring or fall days, office or tailored daytime events where restrained elegance reads louder than loud projection.
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.