Ombre Mercure
A violet-leaf opening strikes like frozen metal under fog—cool, mineral, almost wet concrete.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Amber50
- Violet50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readA violet-leaf opening strikes like frozen metal under fog—cool, mineral, almost wet concrete. That austere introduction soon warms as jasmine and ylang-ylang emerge, but they never turn indolic or heavy. Instead, iris and violet keep them restrained, powdered, as though viewed through frosted glass. The florals hover in a silvery suspension, refusing to bloom fully.
As it settles, sandalwood and benzoin provide warmth without sweetness, while patchouli adds earthy shadow beneath the pale petals. Vanilla appears only as a whisper, rounding edges rather than announcing itself. The overall effect is mercurial in the truest sense—shifting between cool and warm, floral and mineral, soft and austere.
This is fragrance for someone who wants presence without declaration, elegance without decoration. It occupies space quietly, like winter light through museum windows.
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.
