Iris Shadow
Raspberry and lychee create a bright, almost candied fruit opening that feels more synthetic than fresh, landing closer to berry lip balm than to orchard.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Powdery70
- Leather60
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Lychee
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Leather
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readRaspberry and lychee create a bright, almost candied fruit opening that feels more synthetic than fresh, landing closer to berry lip balm than to orchard. Violet enters quickly, powdering the fruit with a cool, cosmetic dust that mutes the sweetness and tilts the composition toward a lipstick accord. Leather emerges in the base, stretching the violet into a suede-like panel backed by earthy patchouli and clean white musk, so the finish is soft, slightly smoky leather rather than rugged hide. On skin the fruit fades within twenty minutes, leaving violet at center stage for about two hours before the musky leather skin close to the body. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-arm’s-length veil that works best in spring office settings or weekend brunches when you want a pastel leather whisper instead of a statement.
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.