Ombre Mercure Extreme
Violet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot’s crisp citrus to create a sharp, almost frosted-green introduction that feels like chilled ginre glass.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Bergamot
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cool and metallic, slicing through bergamot’s crisp citrus to create a sharp, almost frosted-green introduction that feels like chilled ginre glass. The heart is skipped, so the scent pivots directly into benzoin’s warm, resinous amber glow, letting the leaf’s camphoraceous edge slowly dissolve into sweet vananilla ribbons. Patchouli arrives dry and earthy, anchoring the benzoin with a chocolate-brown tobacco facet that keeps the composition from turning syrupy. On skin the violet leaf lingers longer than expected, ghosting the ambered base with a cool ozone trail that reads as airy rather than heavy. Projection stays moderate, best for cool spring evenings or air-conditioned offices where the green flash can still cut through recycled air.
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.




