Ombre de Hyacinth
Ombre de Hyacinth opens on a sharp green chord—violet leaf and galbanum together produce that distinctive crushed-stem quality, cool and slightly bitter, like the interior of a florist shop in January.
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.
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The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Magnolia
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
- Galbanum
- Jasmine
- Pink Pepper
By the editors · 2 min readOmbre de Hyacinth opens on a sharp green chord—violet leaf and galbanum together produce that distinctive crushed-stem quality, cool and slightly bitter, like the interior of a florist shop in January. Magnolia softens the angle while frankincense adds a smoke-tinged elevation: this is a green fragrance that reads as expensive rather than merely leafy.
Jasmine and pink pepper arrive in the heart, the floral note clean and sharp-edged, the pepper adding friction that prevents sweetness from taking hold. The base strips back to resin and musk, benzoin contributing a subtle amber-adjacent warmth. The silhouette throughout is lean and architectural—more shadow than bloom, true to its name.
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.
