Fleur de Peau Diptyque 2018 Eau de Parfum
The iris note in Fleur de Peau arrives first, powdery but not sweet, with the muted mineral quality of cosmetic-grade orris butter.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Musky70
- Iris65
- Powdery55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Ambrette Seed
- Aldehydes
- Ambergris
- Pink Pepper
- Iris
- Musk
- Turkish Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe iris note in Fleur de Peau arrives first, powdery but not sweet, with the muted mineral quality of cosmetic-grade orris butter. Beneath it, a soft musk accord holds everything in place—cottony, intimate, almost skin-temperature. There's pink pepper in the opening that adds a faint prickle before fading into the backdrop.
As it settles, ambrette seed emerges with its faint grapey-musky character, reinforcing the skin-like impression. The texture remains smooth and close, never projecting far, with a deliberate thinness that suggests sheer fabrics rather than heavy layers. Angelica root contributes a pale, almost soapy greenness that keeps the composition from turning too sweet or cloying.
This is fragrance as second skin—clean without being sharp, soft without feeling juvenile. It suits those who want presence without announcement, and who appreciate iris for its restraint rather than its opulence. Fleur de Peau stays polite, resolutely quiet, and unapologetically minimal.
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.
