The Virgin Suicides
Violet opens cool and powdery, immediately laying down an iris-like suede that feels both dry and softly sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Rose
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens cool and powdery, immediately laying down an iris-like suede that feels both dry and softly sweet. A heart of lily-of-the-valley and rose adds clean white petals, while tonka supplies a faint almond facet that keeps the composition from turning chalky. Iris reappears in the base alongside sandalwood and vanilla, amplifying the plush, cosmetic character and letting the violet hover like pastel dust. Incense and cedar lend a quiet wood-smoke frame, preventing the vanilla from drifting into custard territory; patchouli and musk extend the haze so the scent stays gauzy for hours. Projection stays moderate, blooming no farther than arm’s length, and the dry-down is a pale, sweet wood that feels most at home in cool spring weather or an air-conditioned office.
Scent twins
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