04 Violet Blossom
Violet Blossom opens on cherry blossom — light, subtly fruity, with the translucent quality Japanese-style florals carry.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Cherry70
- Almond50
- Nutty50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cherry Blossom
- Magnolia
- Heliotrope
- Almond
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readViolet Blossom opens on cherry blossom — light, subtly fruity, with the translucent quality Japanese-style florals carry. The note fades quickly into magnolia and heliotrope, an unusual pairing: magnolia adds a vaguely creamy white-floral presence while heliotrope pulls the composition toward powder, an almond-forward direction underscored by the actual almond in the base.
Vanilla smooths the landing, as it does in most of this line, but here it plays a genuinely supporting role — the powdery-almond accord is the core of the fragrance rather than its sweetener. Intimate in projection, suited for close encounters. Simple and appealing to those drawn to soft, confection-adjacent 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.
