Iris de Syracuse
A crisp pear opening tempered by black pepper announces a composition more poised than its fruity start suggests.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Iris60
- Fresh50
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA crisp pear opening tempered by black pepper announces a composition more poised than its fruity start suggests. The iris arrives quickly, cool and almost soapy-clean, softened by heliotrope's powdery almond facets. Jasmine provides just enough floral brightness to keep the heart from turning too abstract, while the pepper lingers as a quiet thread of warmth.
The drydown settles into vanilla-touched musk with a whisper of patchouli beneath—smoothed out, never earthy or heavy. The iris remains central throughout, giving the whole thing a groomed, streamlined quality. This feels designed for someone who wants a modern iris scent without the stark austerity of niche minimalism, balancing accessibility with a certain refined restraint.
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.
