Veloutine
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through air like crisp lettuce.
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.
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- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Violet
- Rose
- Leather
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through air like crisp lettuce. The heart layers powdery violet petals over a taut rose, creating a suede-like floral accord that feels both dry and slightly sweet. Leather emerges early, tightening the bouquet into a thin, matte skin that smells of new gloves still holding dye. Musk settles underneath, adding clean skin warmth without sweetness, letting the violet-powder persist as the leather softens. Projection stays close, a quiet veil perfect for office days when you want polish without announcement.
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.
