Iris Empire
Cinnamon at the top is a small spark — dry, almost dusty — before iris and violet take over with their cool, powdered flowers.
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.
- Smoky80
- Iris70
- Powdery55
- Patchouli
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Iris
- Violet
- Leather
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon at the top is a small spark — dry, almost dusty — before iris and violet take over with their cool, powdered flowers. The heart reads cosmetic-quiet, an iris-and-violet pairing that stays close rather than projecting.
The base is where the composition settles into its strangeness: frankincense and olibanum stack smoke on smoke, benzoin adds a balsamic warmth, and chocolate appears unexpectedly — more cocoa-bitter than sweet — while patchouli grounds everything in damp earth. The arc reads ceremonial rather than wearable: iris built into incense and resin rather than perfumed powder. Cold weather, evening, a deliberate fragrance for a deliberate occasion.
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.
