Iris
The opening is bright and immediately floral—ylang-ylang's creamy richness softened by bergamot's citrus clarity.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Iris95
- Tobacco65
- Vanilla45
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Vanilla
- Tobacco
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is bright and immediately floral—ylang-ylang's creamy richness softened by bergamot's citrus clarity. Within minutes, the iris emerges, not powdery in the violet-dusted sense but rooty and earthy, with that characteristic vegetal coolness that recalls freshly turned soil and the pale interior of the rhizome itself.
As it settles, vanilla and tobacco provide warmth without sweetness, their presence more textural than gourmand. The musk adds skin-closeness, pulling everything inward rather than projecting outward. The result is an iris that feels grounded rather than ethereal, more about the garden than the dressing table.
This is quieter than most contemporary iris fragrances, suited to those who prefer their florals composed rather than declamatory. It wears close, developing slowly over hours with minimal evolution—what you smell in the first thirty minutes is largely what remains.
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.