Colour Me Purple
Violet dominates the opening, cool and powdery, immediately pulling the bergamot into a muted, almost chalky citrus frame.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readViolet dominates the opening, cool and powdery, immediately pulling the bergamot into a muted, almost chalky citrus frame. Jasmine and rose bloom together in the heart, but the violet’s iris-like dustiness keeps their sweetness in check, while patchouli adds a dry, leafy rasp that prevents the bouquet from turning lush. Oakmoss spreads underneath early, its bitter green dampness locking the florals to the skin and shaving off any residual brightness. As the amber warms, it doesn’t liquefy; instead it acts like a matte fixative, letting patchouli and moss settle into a soft, earth-toned suede that stays close. Projection remains office-polite, a skin-scent veil that lasts through a workday, best in cool weather when the mossy spine can fully expand.
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.
