Homme
Orris opens things with its characteristic cold, earthy-powdery quality — somewhere between root vegetable and clean skin.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Orris
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readOrris opens things with its characteristic cold, earthy-powdery quality — somewhere between root vegetable and clean skin. There is no sharp or citrusy introduction here; it begins already in a composed, quiet register.
Tonka and amber move the composition into warmer territory at the heart, rounding the iris's drier edges with a gentle sweetness. The transition is gradual and unhurried.
Sandalwood and white musk form a soft, creamy base with vanilla adding depth without becoming overtly sweet. The overall effect is intimate and close-wearing — powdery iris over a smooth, warm wood-amber foundation. It wears more like a second skin than a declaration.
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.
