On The Edge
Created by Nicolas Beaulieu and Nelly Hachem-Ruiz, On The Edge opens with orange — brief, juicy, and quickly overcome by violet's cool powdery weight.
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.
- Leather80
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Violet
- Leather
- Leather
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readCreated by Nicolas Beaulieu and Nelly Hachem-Ruiz, On The Edge opens with orange — brief, juicy, and quickly overcome by violet's cool powdery weight. The violet doesn't bloom so much as press into the skin; this is the duskier, darker side of the note, closer to iris-powder than fresh flower.
Leather arrives early and anchors everything, giving the fragrance a dry, slightly animalic finish that contradicts the apparent softness of a violet at its center. Three ingredients, no wasted motion. On The Edge is a compact leather-violet study that wears close, suits evenings and late-season days, and is best for those who want femininity paired with a strip of severity.
Scent twins
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