Bois d'Iris
Frankincense and nutmeg crackle open with a dry, peppery smoke that immediately stakes out woody-iris territory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Iris80
- Woody70
- Smoky60
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Sage
- Frankincense
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readFrankincense and nutmeg crackle open with a dry, peppery smoke that immediately stakes out woody-iris territory. Sage keeps the incense airy, stopping it from turning dense, while bergamot flashes a quick metallic citrus edge that evaporates in minutes. The heart is built around iris butter: its cool carrot-root dust settles onto creamy Australian sandalwood, letting patchouli’s earthiness read more as clean bark than humid soil. Vanilla and amber arrive early, sweetening the embers enough to let vetiver’s grass-smoke trail linger without harshness; a quiet tobacco leaf adds a brown, papery thickness that anchors the iris so it never floats away. Projection stays polite, a skin-reaching incense haze perfect for office or close-quarters evening wear through fall and winter.
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.
