Malbec Duo
Violet leaf and saffron open cool and metallic, their green spice sharpened by cardamom and a bright citrus flash of lime and bergamot.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Chocolate80
- Green60
- Woody50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Lime
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Fig
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf and saffron open cool and metallic, their green spice sharpened by cardamom and a bright citrus flash of lime and bergamot. Chocolate enters early, already weaving through the aromatics, turning the heart into a faintly bitter cocoa ribbon that keeps the promised rose dry and dusk-colored rather than sweet. Earthy patchouli and vetiver shoulder the cocoa downward, while cedar and oakmoss dry the base into a muted woody chypre with a clean musk overlay. Wear is close and polite: projection stays within arm’s length for about six hours, tilting slightly cooler and soapier as the amber warms. Office-friendly in spring and fall, it behaves like a dark shirt—quietly present but never loud.
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.