Irida
Violet leaf opens cold and metallic, slicing through the air like crisp lettuce.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Iris80
- Violet70
- Cinnamon60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Violet Leaf
- Orris
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readViolet leaf opens cold and metallic, slicing through the air like crisp lettuce. Within minutes, orris butter thickens the line, its carrot-seed facet grabbing the violet petals and turning them suede-soft while cinnamon sparks a low, sweet heat that keeps the flowers from going powdery. Jasmine adds a trace of living-leaf green that makes the violet heart smell plucked rather than pressed. Sandalwood and guaiac wood arrive early, their blond and smoked faces already merging with labdanum’s leathery resin so the base feels seamless rather than separate. Vetiver threads smoke through the wood, stretching the iris-violet accord into a cool, grey-green ribbon that lingers close to the skin for hours. Projection stays polite, a scented scarf for cool spring days or air-conditioned offices.
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.