Violette
Violet leaf opens with a green, slightly waxy sharpness that quickly melds into a powdery floral heart dominated by iris and violet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Iris60
- Violet50
- Powdery50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Violet
- Rose
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a green, slightly waxy sharpness that quickly melds into a powdery floral heart dominated by iris and violet. Jasmine and rose add a soft floral sweetness that complements rather than overwhelms the powdery core. Heliotrope enhances the powdery texture with a faint almond-like creaminess, while musk provides a clean, skin-close base that holds the fragrance together. The composition remains largely linear, focusing on a consistent powdery floral character from application to dry-down. Sillage is intimate from the start, making it ideal for close encounters and personal wear. Longevity is moderate, lasting four to six hours, best suited for spring days or formal settings where subtlety is valued.
Scent twins
In this family
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.