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.
- Powdery55
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Peach
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant, lemon, and bergamot open with a bright, slightly tart fruitiness that lifts off quickly and gives way to the real subject: violet. Already present in the top, violet deepens in the heart into something more substantial — rounded and powdery, softened by peach, jasmine, and rose without losing its characteristic cool sweetness.
This is a composed violet study rather than a single-note exercise. Molinard layers violet with complementary materials that enhance rather than compete: the peach adds warmth without going gourmand; jasmine and rose stay in the background as supporting structure.
The base is quiet and mineral. Violet leaf adds a green, watery quality; iris introduces a soft powder; white musk keeps everything clean and skin-close. A gentle, well-proportioned violet suited to warm days when something cool and quietly floral feels right.
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.
