Violet Ida
A quiet bergamot opening — barely a top, more a hinge — that leads quickly into the perfume's real subject.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Powdery75
- Iris70
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Violet
- Vanilla
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readA quiet bergamot opening — barely a top, more a hinge — that leads quickly into the perfume's real subject.
The heart is a triad: heliotrope, iris, and violet, with a touch of pink pepper for lift. Together they construct that specific cosmetic-counter quality — face powder, lipstick wax, a hint of cherry-almond from the heliotrope. Iris keeps it cool; violet adds candied edge; pink pepper saves it from sweetness.
Vanilla, amber, and patchouli close the dry-down softly, lending warmth without sweetness overtaking the powder. It stays close to the skin, reading intimate and slightly nostalgic. Best worn in cooler weather, on casual or evening occasions where quiet beauty is the goal.
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.