London
Violet opens with a peculiar softness, almost powdery but not quite nostalgic, before raspberry emerges—tart and vivid, more jam than fruit.
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.
- Leather55
- Woody50
- Sweet50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Raspberry
- Lily of the Valley
- Leather
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens with a peculiar softness, almost powdery but not quite nostalgic, before raspberry emerges—tart and vivid, more jam than fruit. This pairing feels deliberately eccentric, a floral-fruity accord that bypasses sweetness for something moodier. Lily of the valley adds a watery coolness that keeps the raspberry from becoming cloying, creating an unexpected tension in the early stages.
As it settles, leather begins to anchor the composition, smooth rather than harsh, cushioned by vanilla and amber that blur the edges. The result is less "London fog" than London club seating—plush, slightly animalic from the musk, with that raspberry note lingering like lipstick on a glass. It wears warm and close, occupying a strange middle ground between fruity florals and leather scents.
This is for someone who finds conventional raspberry fragrances too cheerful and conventional leathers too austere, seeking something that splits the difference with quiet confidence.
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.
