Simply - The Art of Layering: Touch of Leather
Bergamot flashes a quick metallic brightness before violet steps forward, cool and powdery, shading the citrus into a muted lavender-grey layer.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Leather90
- Violet70
- Powdery60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Amber
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes a quick metallic brightness before violet steps forward, cool and powdery, shading the citrus into a muted lavender-grey layer. Nutmeg warms the violet’s coolness, adding a softly peppered edge that prepares the hide for what follows. The leather accord arrives early, smooth and suede-like rather than raw, stitched to dry amber resin and a measured dose of patchouli that keeps the base trim and matte. Over hours the violet folds into the amber, tinting the leather with a faint iris-powder sheen while patchouli’s earthy facet stops the composition from turning sweet. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for office days when you want discreet texture instead of statement. Cool fall and early spring weather let the suede skin breathe without overheating, and longevity lands neatly at the seven-hour mark before it settles as a skin scent.
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.



