Bois de Violette
Bois de Violette opens with a dusted, spiced sweetness—violet petals folded into cedar shavings, the purple note neither candy-like nor powdery in the usual sense.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Woody65
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Plum
- Vanilla
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Clove
- Cardamom
- Violet
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBois de Violette opens with a dusted, spiced sweetness—violet petals folded into cedar shavings, the purple note neither candy-like nor powdery in the usual sense. There's a resinous warmth from cinnamon and cardamom that gives the violet a woody backbone, while plum and peach lend a muted, jammy richness without turning fruity or obvious. The florals stay quiet, more textural than fragrant.
As it settles, the composition becomes drier and more linear, the violet receding into a sandalwood-like haze with a gentle musk base. The spices fade but leave a trace of warmth, like the memory of incense in old fabric. It wears close, soft, and slightly melancholic.
This suits those who want violet treated as a material rather than a symbol—less about flowers in a vase, more about the grain of violet-scented wood. Unisex, introspective, and quietly elegant in the way early Lutens fragrances tend to be.
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.
