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Violet opens with a powdery and slightly sweet floral character, immediately establishing a classic aromatic tone.
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.
- Violet60
- Mossy60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Lavender
- Myrrh
- Styrax
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens with a powdery and slightly sweet floral character, immediately establishing a classic aromatic tone. Lavender adds a fresh herbal quality, while myrrh and styrax introduce a balsamic resinous depth that contrasts with the powder. Leather and oakmoss in the base create an earthy, slightly rugged dry-down supported by sandalwood and cedar's smooth woodiness. Vanilla provides a subtle sweet undertone, softening the composition's sharper edges. The scent evolves significantly from powdery floral to a complex leathery chypre with good projection and longevity. Ideal for fall and winter formal occasions.
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.
