Viride
Viride opens with a bracing slap of lavender—not the powdery kind found in fougères, but something greener and more medicinal, almost austere.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Lavender45
- Tobacco35
- Cedar35
- Jasmine30
- Musk25
By the editors · 2 min readViride opens with a bracing slap of lavender—not the powdery kind found in fougères, but something greener and more medicinal, almost austere. The jasmine that follows refuses to sweeten the composition; instead, it lends a waxy, slightly indolic edge that keeps the scent taut and unsettling. There's no soft-focus romance here.
As it settles, cedar and tobacco emerge with a dry, smoky presence, grounded by a skin-close musk that feels lived-in rather than clean. The effect is somewhere between an apothecary's cabinet and a shirt worn too long. Viride doesn't flatter or seduce—it confronts.
This is for those who wear fragrance as self-expression rather than social smoothing. It occupies a strange zone between barbershop tradition and something feral, disciplined but not domesticated. Challenging in the way Orto Parisi often is, it rewards patience and a taste for the unconventional.