Velvet Iris
Lavender opens cool and camphoraceous, slicing through the air with a barbershop steel edge that feels instantly crisp.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Pear
- Iris
- Vetiver
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readLavender opens cool and camphoraceous, slicing through the air with a barbershop steel edge that feels instantly crisp. Iris the heart, pear’s aqueous juiciness softens the metallic lavender, while iris layers a dry, chalky powder that blurs the edges into a muted grey-purple haze. Over the first hour the fruit water recedes, letting the iris dominate with a cosmetic, lipstick waxiness that feels clean yet slightly distant. Vetiver and Virginia cedar arrive late, stitching a taut, woody-green leash under the powder, anchoring it to skin skin without adding sweetness or warmth. Projection stays at arm’s length for six hours, making it office-safe in spring cool days when you want quiet polish rather than statement.
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.