Debaser
Named for the Pixies song, Debaser smells nothing like grunge and everything like a refined niche take on fig and iris.
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.
- Iris65
- Tropical50
- Lactonic50
- Coconut
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Fig
- Tonka Bean
- Moss
By the editors · 2 min readNamed for the Pixies song, Debaser smells nothing like grunge and everything like a refined niche take on fig and iris. Pear and bergamot open in a pale, slightly dewy register — the pear mild and soft, bergamot adding clean aromatic brightness. Iris and fig in the heart form a strange and beautiful partnership: iris chalky and slightly cold, fig with its characteristic green-sap darkness and milky-sweet quality, the two notes pulling in almost opposite directions while sharing something elemental. Tonka and moss in the base warm and earth the accord without sweetening it excessively. A quietly distinctive fragrance: unexpected pairings, understated.
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.
