Ambre Iris
Lavender and saffron open together, an unusual top pairing that runs cool and warm against each other from the first sniff.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Saffron
- Saffron
- Sage
- Sage
- Iris
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readLavender and saffron open together, an unusual top pairing that runs cool and warm against each other from the first sniff. The saffron's leathery edge is already showing.
Sage joins iris in the heart, dropping the composition into a powdery-aromatic register. The iris reads cool and slightly carroty, the sage keeps a green-herbal lift, and the overall middle is dry, dusty and gently old-fashioned in a deliberate way.
Leather, amber and vanilla form the base. The leather is suede-soft rather than birch-tar harsh, the amber rounds it, and vanilla provides just enough sweetness to keep the drydown wearable. Overall this is a powdery-leather iris-amber — composed and quiet, with a clear vintage-French sensibility.
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.
