Iris Crush
Neroli and freesia open soft and clean, pink pepper adding a faint peppery sparkle — the top is more wash than burst, a gentle floral mist with citrus at the edges rather than at the front.
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.
- Almond65
- Iris50
- Vanilla50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Pink Pepper
- Freesia
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and freesia open soft and clean, pink pepper adding a faint peppery sparkle — the top is more wash than burst, a gentle floral mist with citrus at the edges rather than at the front.
Iris takes the heart with its characteristic cool, root-vegetable powder, heliotrope softening it with marzipan-soft almond. The middle reads quiet and slightly damp, like a powder room with the door cracked open — iris-driven without being austere.
Tonka, patchouli, and musk close out the composition with a powdery-sweet warmth, almond-tonka leaning gourmand-adjacent without crossing into dessert. The overall character is a creamy-iris floral, comfort-perfume territory rather than statement, with a gentle persistence that stays close to skin.
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.