White Iris
Bergamot flashes briefly, then jasmine and violet fold into a cool, chalky iris that carries the scent.
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.
- Almond50
- Nutty50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Bergamot
- Violet
- Orris
- Almond
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes briefly, then jasmine and violet fold into a cool, chalky iris that carries the scent. Orris dominates the heart, its carrot-seed edge warmed by heliotrope’s marzipan fluff, while a discreet almond note supplies a slightly bitter, cherry-pit counterpoint. Tonka and ambroxan arrive late, wrapping the powdery floral core in faint tobacco-vanilla sweetness and clean wood musk, so the fragrance stays pale and musky rather than gourmand. On skin the iris recedes after two hours, leaving a soft, skin-close haze of almond skin and tonka. Projection is polite, office-safe; best worn in cool-to-warm spring days when you want a tidy, powdered freshness that never shouts.
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.
