Shomal
Iris dominates the opening with cool, carrot-like powderiness that immediately sets a cosmetic tone.
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.
- White Floral50
- Iris50
- Green50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Iris
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readIris dominates the opening with cool, carrot-like powderiness that immediately sets a cosmetic tone. Jasmine enters next, sweetening the iris into a plush white-floral heart while patchouli adds an earthy backbone that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary. The amber-vanilla accord in the base warms the composition, turning the earlier chalkiness into a rounded, skin-hugging glow; musk extends the dry-down, lending clean softness rather than animalic depth. Wear tends to stay close, projecting roughly an arm’s length for the first two hours before settling into a linen-wrapped skin scent that lasts a full workday. Cool spring and early-fall days suit it best, pairing well with office or daytime casual settings where subtle polish matters more than loud statement.
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.
