Elogio de la Sombra
Iris opens cool and chalky, its carrot-seed facetet creating a matte, mineral hush that feels like sifted ash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Iris
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
- Bergamot
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readIris opens cool and chalky, its carrot-seed facetet creating a matte, mineral hush that feels like sifted ash. A squeeze of bergamot arrives almost immediately, but instead of sparkle it offers a bitter-pressed oil that darkens the iris rather than illuminating it, while mimosa’s soft pollen fuzz adds a muted yellow halo around the grey core. As the citrus retreats the iris expands, turning from dry dust to suede, still powdery-dour yet now carrying a faint honeyed warmth borrowed from the lingering mimosa. The dry-down stays close to skin, a quiet sheet of iris-talc that smells like untouched library paper and yesterday’s cosmetic clay; projection remains hushed, perfect for contemplative winter days when you want to smell like you’ve been reading by a closed window for hours.
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.