Iris | Lily of the Valley | Cotton
Lily of the valley leads with a clean, dewy green-white freshness, not overly sweet but distinctly floral.
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.
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Rose
- Musk
- Lily of the Valley
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLily of the valley leads with a clean, dewy green-white freshness, not overly sweet but distinctly floral. It reads as garden-wet rather than synthetic, which sets a grounded, naturalistic tone from the start.
Iris moves in at the heart alongside rose, adding a cool, powdery depth that shifts the composition away from pure lightness. The iris root quality — slightly earthy, chalk-adjacent — gives the mid-stage something to hold on to beyond simple prettiness. Rose stays restrained, supporting rather than dominating.
White musk in the base keeps everything airy, dissolving the floral structure gradually into a soft skin-close finish. The overall profile is sheer and powdery with minimal evolution — coherent and easy to wear.
Scent twins
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