The Iris Way
Iris dominates with a cool, chalky powder that feels like pressed silk against skin.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Iris90
- Powdery70
- Amber50
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readIris dominates with a cool, chalky powder that feels like pressed silk against skin. The heart shows no floral companions, letting the iris stay stark and mineral while amber begins warming the underside. Vanilla arrives early in the base, rounding the iris dust into a soft, almost almond-like cream without overt sweetness. Musk sheathes the transition, keeping the powder airborne for hours while preventing the amber from turning dense. On skin the scent stays linear: pale iris, warm amber haze, clean musk curtain, little evolution beyond growing creamier. Projection stays polite, a translucent veil that hovers inside personal space for a full workday, best worn in cool spring or fall offices where quiet elegance reads louder than loud projection.
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.