Purplelips Sensual
Purplelips Sensual opens with a tart-sweet collision: black currant's resinous bite, freesia's airy-pepper lift, and violet pulling both toward powder.
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.
- Amber60
- Cinnamon55
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Freesia
- Violet
- Cinnamon
- Vanilla
- Opoponax
By the editors · 2 min readPurplelips Sensual opens with a tart-sweet collision: black currant's resinous bite, freesia's airy-pepper lift, and violet pulling both toward powder.
The heart turns spice-and-balm: cinnamon's dry heat threading through vanilla's softness, with opoponax adding a sticky-sweet incense quality. The combination is warmer and more textured than the original Purplelips, with real body in the middle rather than a single floral.
The base settles into a familiar oriental drydown — sandalwood under amber's resinous glow, patchouli adding earthy depth. The perfume reads as a cooler-weather companion to its sister: still cosmetic and approachable, but with enough spice and resin to feel like an evening rather than an afterthought. Close-wearing, sweet, and a little smoky around the edges.
Scent twins
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