Iris
Iris opens cool and starchy, its carrot-like rootiness immediately softened by violet’s candied purple accent.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Violet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Violet
- May Rose
- White Musk
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readIris opens cool and starchy, its carrot-like rootiness immediately softened by violet’s candied purple accent. May rose enters within minutes, adding a faint honeyed lift that keeps the iris from turning too chalky, while white musk begins to blur the edges with a clean cotton effect. As the heart settles, tonka bean folds in a mild almond-coumarin sweetness that rounds the iris-violet axis, creating a powdery floral skin scent rather than a statement perfume. The musk never departs, so the dry-down stays sheer, slightly milky, and office-safe, projecting no farther than handshake distance for about five hours before collapsing into a faint, soap-powder residue. Quiet, tidy, and seasonless, it behaves like freshly laundered linen worn under a lightweight sweater.
Scent twins
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