The Sands of Aqaba
Iris opens cool and starchy, a dry violet-root powder that settles immediately onto skin.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Cardamom
- Incense
- Tuberose
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readIris opens cool and starchy, a dry violet-root powder that settles immediately onto skin. Cardamom enters within minutes, splitting the powder with green-citrus heat that lifts the iris dust into airborne swirls. Incense and vetiver arrive together in the base, the former adding a resinous smoke trail while the latter supplies damp earth to ground the iris-cardamom dialogue. Tuberose stays low, a muted cream that rounds the smoke without announcing itself as floral, letting the composition read as mineral-dusty rather than sweet. The scent stays close, a skin-level haze that shifts from chalky to woody-incense over four hours. Cool weather sharpens the iris-vetiver contrast; office-safe projection never exceeds personal space.
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.
