Face a Face pour Femme
Iris opens cool and chalky, its powdery violet edge immediately setting a restrained, almost starchy tone against which the heart must fight for space.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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
- White Floral60
- Woody50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Amber
- Cedar
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readIris opens cool and chalky, its powdery violet edge immediately setting a restrained, almost starchy tone against which the heart must fight for space. Jasmine arrives next, adding a creamy white-floral lift that softens the iris dust while lily-of-the-valley injects a crisp green sparkle, keeping the bouquet from collapsing into pure cosmetics. As the flowers relax, cedar steps forward with dry pencil-shaving wood, letting patchouli’s earthy leaf darken the base and anchoring the earlier coolness in warm soil. Amber spreads quietly underneath, turning the woods faintly honeyed and extending the composition’s polite trail for several hours. Projection stays within handshake distance; the scent reads as tailored daytime wear for cool spring offices or understated fall dinners.
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.
