Dawn
Violet leaf opens the composition with a sharp, watery-green snap — cucumber-like, faintly metallic, more leaf than flower.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Mossy70
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Musk
- Oakmoss
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens the composition with a sharp, watery-green snap — cucumber-like, faintly metallic, more leaf than flower. There is no fruit or citrus to soften it.
There is essentially no developed heart; the scent moves quickly from the green opening into the base, which is where its character lives. Oakmoss arrives damp and earthy, vetiver layers in a dry, smoky-rooty edge, and a clean musk threads through.
Vanilla in the base is soft and almost saline rather than sweet, more like balsam than dessert. The overall character is austere and quiet: a green-mossy woody with minimal floral content and a long, low-projection drydown. It reads cool, almost watercolour-pale, and wears as a daytime skin scent in mild weather.
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.
