Iris de Nuit
Iris de Nuit opens with ambrette's soft, musky-vegetal quality — a seed note that sits closer to skin than to bloom.
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.
- Violet90
- Musky60
- Fresh50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ambrette
- Violet
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readIris de Nuit opens with ambrette's soft, musky-vegetal quality — a seed note that sits closer to skin than to bloom. There is no sharp green burst, no citrus fanfare; it arrives already intimate.
Violet builds through the heart, lending a cool, slightly powdery character that reads more like petal surface than perfume extract. Ambergris in the base smooths everything into a skin-warm finish, adding a faintly marine, slightly animalic depth that keeps the violet from feeling sweet.
The result is quiet and close-wearing — a muted floral with a dry, chalky quality that feels unhurried and restrained. Best in cooler, quieter moments.
Scent twins
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