Khôl de Bahreïn
Violet opens the bottle alone — no citrus lift, no fruit cushion — just that singular cool, slightly metallic flower, immediately signalling a focused composition that prefers depth to movement.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Violet90
- Amber60
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Benzoin
- Violet
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens the bottle alone — no citrus lift, no fruit cushion — just that singular cool, slightly metallic flower, immediately signalling a focused composition that prefers depth to movement.
Sandalwood and amber form the heart, lending the violet a creamy golden floor and tipping the composition into a quieter, almost balsamic register. The middle feels still, more atmospheric than narrative, the violet held suspended in resin.
Ambergris and benzoin in the closing add a salty mineral shimmer and a smooth balsamic warmth, with a soft musk drifting through. Overall the perfume reads contemplative and slightly opulent — a lapidary violet study, polished and luminous, sustained but not demonstrative, lingering close to the skin.
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.
