Comme une Evidence
A green floral that opens with the snap of violet leaf—cool, bitter, almost metallic—before soft lily of the valley and rose blur the edges.
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.
- Mossy65
- Green55
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Oakmoss
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA green floral that opens with the snap of violet leaf—cool, bitter, almost metallic—before soft lily of the valley and rose blur the edges. The effect is clean but never soapy, the florals held in check by oakmoss that keeps everything grounded and slightly shadowed.
As it settles, patchouli and musk drift in, adding weight without heaviness. The moss remains visible throughout, a reminder that this was composed when such materials still spoke freely in mainstream perfumery. What emerges is a composed, unhurried scent that wears closer to the skin than many modern florals.
It suits those who want something recognizably floral but prefer their flowers cut and arranged rather than blooming in full sun. Understated, with a faint nostalgic pull toward early-2000s French accessibility done well.
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.
