Feerie Eau de Toilette Van Cleef & Arpels
A candied violet fantasy that leans unabashedly girlish, Féerie opens with the tart shock of raspberry against cool, almost metallic violet leaf.
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.
- Iris45
- Iris Powder40
- Jasmine35
- Rose30
- Sandalwood25
By the editors · 2 min readA candied violet fantasy that leans unabashedly girlish, Féerie opens with the tart shock of raspberry against cool, almost metallic violet leaf. The contrast feels deliberate: fruit brightened by greenness, sweetness held in check by something sharper. As it settles, powdered violets emerge alongside soft jasmine and rose, all three blurred into a gauzy, sugared haze rather than distinct florals.
The base rounds out with benzoin's vanilla-like warmth and a whisper of sandalwood that adds body without weight. The musk remains polite, almost apologetic. This is fragrance as confection—violet pastilles dusted with icing sugar, worn sheer.
Best suited to those who enjoy unabashedly sweet florals without heaviness, or anyone seeking something deliberately pretty in an era that often mistakes severity for sophistication. It won't challenge or provoke, but that seems entirely the point.
