Platinum
Violet leaf opens cold and metallic, slicing through the heat of black pepper and cardamom to create a sharp, green-spicy flash that feels almost electric.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Black Pepper
- Cardamom
- Cedar
- Patchouli
- Virginia Cedar
- Nutmeg
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cold and metallic, slicing through the heat of black pepper and cardamom to create a sharp, green-spicy flash that feels almost electric. The heart drops the temperature further: twin cedars—one dry and pencil-shaving, the other resinous—lock together with patchouli’s earthy camphor, while nutmeg dusts the wood with a soft, dry spice that keeps the composition angular rather than creamy. Leather arrives early in the base, matte and smoke-tinged, riding on vetiver’s rooty bitterness; amber and vanilla merely fill the cracks, adding a restrained warmth that lets the animalic musk stay foregrounded. Wear time stretches past eight hours, projecting at arm’s length before collapsing into a skin-scent leather-tobacco whisper that skews darker and drier as it ages. Cool fall evenings, dark denim, and outdoor concerts are its natural habitat.
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.
