Night Iris
Black pepper crackles first, dry and woody with a citrus flash from bergamot that keeps the spice airy rather than fiery.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Benzoin
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper crackles first, dry and woody with a citrus flash from bergamot that keeps the spice airy rather than fiery. Iris lands immediately, cool and powdery, turning the pepper’s heat into a suede-like hush while sandalwood steadies the heart with creamy wood. As the benzoin warms, it liquefies the iris into a soft, grey-almond veil that clings close to skin; patchouli adds only a faint earth tether, never muddy. The dry-down stays musky-powdery, a clean skin scent that feels like warmed cashmere rather than statement perfume. Projection hovers inside personal space for six hours, perfect for quiet offices or cool spring evenings when you want polish without announcement.
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.
