Ysatis Iris
Dominique Ropion built Ysatis Iris as a refinement of the 1984 original, substituting iris for the ancient oriental base and rewiring the emotional register accordingly.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Tuberose60
- Rose60
- Iris60
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Mandarin Orange
- Violet
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readDominique Ropion built Ysatis Iris as a refinement of the 1984 original, substituting iris for the ancient oriental base and rewiring the emotional register accordingly. Black currant and violet open with a tart, darkly fruited tartness, but the heart quickly becomes rich with tuberose, rose, and jasmine, all three densely interwoven.
The iris arrives last, positioned unusually in the base rather than the heart, providing a cool, powdery dry-down beneath the still-warm vanilla and patchouli. It slows the fragrance's descent rather than redirecting it, leaving a cool, refined finish on warm skin. The placement reads as a deliberate structural inversion: classical florals on top, powder underneath.
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.
