Collection Excessive - I miss Violet
Violet leaf opens with a crisp, watery green snap that feels like crushed stems in morning shade, nutmeg adding a soft brown warmth that keeps the green from turning metallic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Violet100
- Leather90
- Iris80
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Nutmeg
- Osmanthus
- Iris
- Mimosa
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a crisp, watery green snap that feels like crushed stems in morning shade, nutmeg adding a soft brown warmth that keeps the green from turning metallic. Osmanthus and mimosa arrive together, their peach-apricot fuzz and honeyed pollen dusting the violet heart so the flower reads plush rather than candied, while iris chalk tightens the texture like cold clay. Leather emerges early, a matte calfskin that absorbs the floral oils and turns the composition quietly animalic, ambergris lending a salt-skin radiance that hovers just above the hide. Vanilla and musk in the base do not sweeten; instead they extend the leather’s clean-skin imprint for hours, letting the violet ghost persist as a cool, grey-violet shadow on fabric. Projection stays within handshake distance, perfect for spring office days when you want florals without sugar.
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.
