Bana Banana
The green snap of violet leaf opens bana-banana with an unexpected sharpness, a vegetable crispness that feels more garden than fruit bowl.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Musk40
- Iris35
- Iris Powder35
- Tonka30
- Jasmine30
By the editors · 2 min readThe green snap of violet leaf opens bana-banana with an unexpected sharpness, a vegetable crispness that feels more garden than fruit bowl. Despite the name's playful promise, there's no literal banana here—instead, the composition leans into the soft, powdery lactonic quality that violet leaf and iris share, a milky-woody abstraction that might evoke the creamy sweetness of ripe banana to some noses without direct imitation.
As it settles, jasmine adds gentle floralcy while tonka bean and amber create a cushioned, slightly vanillic base. The musk keeps everything close to the skin, intimate rather than projecting. The overall effect is quietly eccentric: a perfume that uses natural green-floral materials to conjure something between memory and suggestion, more interested in evoking a feeling than replicating a scent literally. Best suited to those who appreciate perfume as interpretation rather than representation.
