Purple Mantra
Lavender lands cool and slightly camphorous, edged by a crackle of pink pepper that lifts the opening without adding heat.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Lavender80
- Iris70
- Aromatic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Pink Pepper
- Freesia
- Iris
- Clary Sage
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readLavender lands cool and slightly camphorous, edged by a crackle of pink pepper that lifts the opening without adding heat. The heart folds in iris, its dry, carrot-seed powder softening the herbs while clary sage reinforces the grey-green aromatics, keeping the structure angular rather than plush. Ambroxan slides in early, stretching a clean, mineral musk through the incense resins so the myrrh and frankincense smolder low, never turning churchy. As skin warms, the musk amplifies, turning the accord into a muted, ash-tinted skin scent that still carries a faint lavender shimmer. Projection stays polite, hovering just inside personal space; it reads like crisp linen washed with incense soap. Works best spring through early fall, office safe yet quietly offbeat.
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.


