Scent Stories Vol.1/Ch.04 - Shaman
Violet leaf opens with a damp, metallic green snap that cardamom quickly warms into an aromatic spice swirl.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Honey80
- Amber70
- Aromatic60
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Cardamom
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
- Nutmeg
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a damp, metallic green snap that cardamom quickly warms into an aromatic spice swirl. Frankincense and labdanum fuse in the heart, creating a resinous amber glow that nutmeg punctures with dry, woody heat. The base sinks into animalic ambergris streaked with dark honey, while patchouli provides earthy ballast and styrax leaves a leathery, slightly smoky trail. On skin the green edge softens within twenty minutes, letting the honeyed ambergris dominate for six hours before patchouli-styrax dust takes over. Sillage stays at arm’s length, projecting best in cool fall evenings or layered winter knits.
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.
