Spectral Violet
Raspberry and lime crack open with galbanum's sappy bite, an unusual fruit-meets-bitter-green opening that reads tart rather than sweet.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Marine50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Lime
- Galbanum
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Seaweed
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry and lime crack open with galbanum's sappy bite, an unusual fruit-meets-bitter-green opening that reads tart rather than sweet. The violet emerges quickly, cool and slightly metallic, threading through that sharpness.
Midway, seaweed turns the violet briny and the vetiver pulls everything toward damp earth. Sandalwood softens the edges without warming them; musk stays quiet.
The overall character is shadowy and aqueous, a violet bruised by seawater and wet root. More wearable in spring evenings than its strange opening suggests, with a lingering green-mineral drydown that holds close to skin.
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.
