Ambitious
Orris lands cool and starchy, dusting skin with a violet-tinged mineral powder that quickly warms as Bulgarian rose blooms underneath, adding a faint honeyed petal softness that keeps the iris from turning cosmetic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Orris
- Bulgarian Rose
- White Musk
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readOrris lands cool and starchy, dusting skin with a violet-tinged mineral powder that quickly warms as Bulgarian rose blooms underneath, adding a faint honeyed petal softness that keeps the iris from turning cosmetic. Cardamom threads through the heart, lifting the florals with a green-citrus edge while amber begins to pool in the base, rounding angles with a transparent caramel glow. Tonka bean folds in a soft almond-coumarin cushion that muffles patchouli’s earthier facets, letting the leaf settle as clean cocoa wood rather than damp soil, while white musk shears off any residual sweetness to leave a dry, laundered finish. Projection stays polite, hovering just inside personal space for six hours, making it office-safe yet quietly distinctive. Cool spring days and early fall afternoons fit best, where low humidity lets the powder breathe.
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.
