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Iris dominates the heart, releasing a cool, chalky dust that settles over the sweet cream of tonka bean.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Violet
- White Musk
- Virginia Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readIris dominates the heart, releasing a cool, chalky dust that settles over the sweet cream of tonka bean. Jasmine slips underneath, adding a quiet white-ppetal lift that keeps the iris from turning too starchy, while violet folds in a faint watercolor purple that blurs the edges. As the minutes pass, the two musks converge: white musk scours away any sugar, letting Virginia cedar show its dry, pencil-shaving woodiness. The result is a soft, powdery skin-veil that stays close, shifting from cool pastel to warm blond wood without ever announcing itself across a room. Expect six hours of polite presence; it thrives in spring offices or cool summer brunches when you want clean refinement without citrus sparkle.
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.
