Dark Purple Black Purple
A plum and orange opening that is immediately dark — not the bright, clear citrus of a fresh cologne but something deeper, the plum pulling the fruit toward macerated rather than candy-sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Rose65
- Musky65
- Patchouli60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Orange
- Patchouli
- Geranium
- Red Berries
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA plum and orange opening that is immediately dark — not the bright, clear citrus of a fresh cologne but something deeper, the plum pulling the fruit toward macerated rather than candy-sweet. Rose, geranium, red berries, and patchouli in the heart keep the purple character without going explicitly floral. The geranium provides a slight green edge that prevents the fruit accumulation from turning cloying.
The base runs musk-forward with teak wood and amber — the teak is dry and slightly dusty, the amber warm and holding. Longevity and sillage are consistent with the house's general output: substantial without being oppressive. A cool-weather evening fragrance, better in fall than winter, feminine in positioning but wearable broadly.
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.
