Herstory
Herstory opens with bergamot's clean citrus note and settles quickly into its floral heart: iris and rose, a classic feminine pairing that trades between the cool powdery pallor of iris and the warm floral fullness of rose.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Rose50
- Iris50
- Vetiver40
- Iris Powder40
- Patchouli40
By the editors · 2 min readHerstory opens with bergamot's clean citrus note and settles quickly into its floral heart: iris and rose, a classic feminine pairing that trades between the cool powdery pallor of iris and the warm floral fullness of rose. Neither dominates; they share the space with the quiet balance the combination classically produces.
The base takes an interesting turn — vetiver's dry, smoky rootedness and patchouli's earthy depth are unusual company for a mid-range rose-iris composition. Benzoin softens the edges with a gentle resinous warmth. The result is a fragrance that wears more seriously than its Avon origins might suggest: the earthy-resinous base gives an otherwise conventional floral heart a contemporary, slightly unpolished character.
A fragrance that punches above its house's typical weight class. The patchouli-vetiver base is the most interesting decision here — it gives the composition staying power and personality that a simple floral base would not.
