Steel
Violet leaf opens with a cold, metallic green snap that feels like crushed stems and rainwater on stainless steel.
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.
- Green70
- Violet60
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Lavender
- Moss
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens with a cold, metallic green snap that feels like crushed stems and rainwater on stainless steel. Lavender follows immediately, not sweet but sharply aromatic, pinning the violet leaf’s airy green to something more grounded and masculine. The heart introduces moss as a dense, forest-floor cushion that softens the edges and adds a damp earthiness, pulling the composition away from laundry-clean toward something more lived-in. Cedar in the base stays dry and quiet, more pencil shavings than creamy wood, letting the moss dominate the dry-down with its cool, shady persistence. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the wearing, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. Works best in spring and early fall when the air is cool enough to let the green notes shimmer rather than evaporate.
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.
