Imperial Tea
Violet dominates the opening with a cool, powdery iris facet that feels like silk pulled across skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Violet100
- Floral70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readViolet dominates the opening with a cool, powdery iris facet that feels like silk pulled across skin. Bergamot flashes briefly underneath, adding a citrus lift that keeps the violet from turning chalky. Within twenty minutes jasmine blooms, its indolic creaminess threading through the violet to create a pale purple floral haze that smells like tea steeping in porcelain. Guaiac wood arrives late, bringing a wisp of clean smoke and pencil-shaving dryness that anchors the florals without adding sweetness. The overall effect stays translucent, a white-shirt scent that hovers close to skin and feels like filtered sunlight on bamboo. Projection remains arm-length for four hours, then collapses to a soft cedar-violet dust perfect for summer office days or humid travel.
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.
