Lalique for Bentley Crystal Edition
Orris opens with a cool, powdery, rooty character — an unusual top note that establishes the fragrance's mood immediately.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Iris70
- Woody50
- Amber50
- Animalic
The note pyramid
- Orris
- Patchouli
- Papyrus
- Leather
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readOrris opens with a cool, powdery, rooty character — an unusual top note that establishes the fragrance's mood immediately. Patchouli and papyrus form the heart: patchouli earthy and dense, papyrus adding a dry, slightly smoky, paper-like quality that contrasts with the patchouli's richness. Leather, amber, and musk anchor the base, the leather dry and direct, amber adding warmth.
This is a sophisticated, dry aromatic built around orris powder and leather. The iris-patchouli-leather combination creates a multifaceted, somewhat austere character that projects quietly and wears close. Iris and patchouli together produce an earthy-powdery tension that defines the heart. A fragrance for cooler weather and occasions where restraint and depth are valued over 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.
