Simply Elixir
Blood orange opens bright and juicy, its citrus oil sheen immediately softened by a cool violet-iris accord that adds a powdery, slightly waxy violet leaf edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris80
- Violet70
- Leather70
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Blood Orange
- Iris
- Violet
- Rose
- Leather
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlood orange opens bright and juicy, its citrus oil sheen immediately softened by a cool violet-iris accord that adds a powdery, slightly waxy violet leaf edge. The heart folds in rose, not lush but dry and papery, letting the iris maintain its matte, lipstick-like dominance while the violet rounds the edges with a faintly sweet, woody ionone facet. Leather arrives early in the base, a smooth, suede-like skin that drinks the vanilla-tinged vanilla and earthy patchouli, keeping the composition lean rather than dessert-like. As the orange fades, iris and leather stay locked in a muted grey-purple haze that sits close to the skin, projecting no more than arm’s length for six hours and feeling most at home under a wool coat in cool, overcast weather.
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.
