Iris Ebène
Petitgrain opens the fragrance with a dry, slightly bitter freshness — woody and citric in the way of green bark rather than fruit.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Soft Spicy55
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
- Suede
- Sandalwood
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens the fragrance with a dry, slightly bitter freshness — woody and citric in the way of green bark rather than fruit. Pink pepper cuts through almost immediately, adding a dry, crackling spice that sits comfortably alongside the petitgrain without overwhelming it.
Iris takes over in the heart, cool and powdery with a faint rooty depth, while suede softens the leather element into something quieter and more refined than raw hide. The combination creates a smooth, skin-close powdery-leather texture.
Sandalwood and musk anchor the dry-down with creamy warmth. The overall impression is restrained: a wearable iris-leather with enough spice to stay interesting without sharpness.
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.
