Violeta
Black currant and plum roll the opening dark and fruity, bergamot the only citrus offering any brightness before the heart takes over.
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.
- Rose60
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant and plum roll the opening dark and fruity, bergamot the only citrus offering any brightness before the heart takes over. That heart is unambiguously 1990s: gardenia, jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, and violet stacked into a dense floral bouquet with the kind of confidence that decade perfumery rarely doubted.
Sandalwood, vetiver, patchouli, and cedar build a base with genuine presence — earthy, woody, and warm rather than sweet. The whole construction radiates a particular era: evening-heavy, full-projection, uninterested in restraint. Violeta was made for wearing into a room and being noticed on the way out.
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.
