Ginza Shiseido / 資生堂 2022 Eau de Parfum Murasaki
Pomegranate and violet open with a juicy-purple character that's more art-direction than perfumery convention — bright fruit cut with a powdery, slightly metallic floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
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The note pyramid
- Pomegranate
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readPomegranate and violet open with a juicy-purple character that's more art-direction than perfumery convention — bright fruit cut with a powdery, slightly metallic floral. The heart simplifies: jasmine and freesia, kept clean and tight, no white-floral pile-up.
The base is the surprise of restraint — sandalwood and patchouli, only two notes, the patchouli polished rather than dirty. It plays as a quiet modern reading of an older Murasaki idea, less complex than its 1980 namesake but more wearable in a contemporary office. Lasts moderate hours, projects little, settles close to skin within the first half hour.
Scent twins
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