Stairway To Heaven
A brief flash of bergamot fades quickly into orris, which sets the tone: cool, rooty, slightly carrot-like, with the chalky sophistication that defines high iris work.
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.
- Iris85
- Fresh50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Bulgarian Rose
- Heliotrope
- White Musk
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readA brief flash of bergamot fades quickly into orris, which sets the tone: cool, rooty, slightly carrot-like, with the chalky sophistication that defines high iris work. Bulgarian rose and heliotrope add a pale floral powder, but the iris keeps the centre.
As the wear develops, the most distinctive accent emerges — a wisp of gunpowder, dry and faintly sulfurous, threading smoke through the powder. Incense joins it, lending a sacred-architectural coolness, while cashmeran adds a soft musky-woody plush. Vanilla and ambroxan at the base round things off with a quiet warmth, and patchouli grounds the iris with a touch of earth. Projection is intimate; the texture is powdered and slightly metallic.
Overall the character is a ghostly iris-incense — pale, smoky, faintly mineral, more atmosphere than 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.
