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 13 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
- Balsamic60
- Aromatic50
- Cinnamon
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Iris
- Bergamot
- Patchouli
- Myrrh
- Labdanum
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.
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.
