Dusk
Apple and lavender open as an unexpected pair — the apple crisp and faintly sweet, the lavender dry and aromatic, neither overpowering the other.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Violet70
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readApple and lavender open as an unexpected pair — the apple crisp and faintly sweet, the lavender dry and aromatic, neither overpowering the other. The contrast is gentle rather than jarring.
The heart shifts toward violet and jasmine, the violet powdery and slightly candied, the jasmine more transparent than indolic. Cardamom from the base starts threading upward early, adding a soft green-spicy warmth that ties the apple opening to the woody close. Sandalwood and patchouli build a smooth, faintly sweet bed underneath, with vanilla rounding the edges. Projection sits at conversational distance, the texture velvety, and the development is gradual rather than dramatic.
The drydown is creamy sandalwood-vanilla under a soft violet powder. Cozy, modern, gender-neutral, easy to wear into the evening.
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.
