Iris Fauve
Cinnamon and iris open Iris Fauve in an unexpected collision: warm dry spice against iris's cool, powdery presence.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Iris65
- Labdanum60
- Cinnamon50
- Patchouli50
- Incense40
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and iris open Iris Fauve in an unexpected collision: warm dry spice against iris's cool, powdery presence. Together they create something more complex than either suggests alone — a spiced-iris accord with a slightly dark, almost animalic quality. Bergamot keeps the opening from becoming too dense.
Patchouli forms the sole heart, functioning as a bridge: its earthy, slightly camphoraceous quality sits exactly between the spiced iris above and the resinous base below. It's not a showy heart note, but it's architecturally essential.
Myrrh and labdanum close as a rich, sweet-resinous pairing — dense, balsamic, almost incense-like. Musk extends the composition without sweetening it. Iris Fauve finishes dark, powdery, and long-wearing — a composition that takes patience and rewards it.
