April Violets
Violet leads, candied and slightly green, with an old-fashioned soliflore feel.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leads, candied and slightly green, with an old-fashioned soliflore feel. The note carries the entire opening on its own — sweet, leafy, and a touch powdered, evoking pressed flowers more than fresh blooms.
The heart layers jasmine and lily of the valley around the violet, both clean and slightly dewy. There's a faint rose and mimosa whisper underneath, keeping the floral picture wide and gentle rather than focused on one bloom.
Vanilla and musk in the base soften everything into a powdery, lightly sweet skin scent. The overall character is nostalgic — a soap-and-talc kind of floral that wears close, never loud. Suitable for daywear, layering, or anyone drawn to the cosmetic-counter idiom of decades-old florals.
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.
