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 13 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.
- Sandalwood65
- Cedar55
- Cinnamon50
- Cardamom40
- Iris40
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.
