Nirmal
Nirmal opens directly on iris and violet — no citrus preamble, just the cool, rooty character of iris root alongside violet's soft, slightly damp floral.
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.
- Leather70
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Violet
- Amber
- Cedar
- Suede
- Leather
- Amber
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readNirmal opens directly on iris and violet — no citrus preamble, just the cool, rooty character of iris root alongside violet's soft, slightly damp floral. Together they establish an immediately powdery, earthy tone.
Suede and leather introduce an animal warmth that keeps the powderiness from feeling lightweight. Cedar adds a dry structural note without asserting itself strongly. Amber weaves through the base, lending a gentle resinous warmth that prevents the leather from turning harsh.
The overall impression is a close-wearing, dry floral-leather — restrained rather than bold. It suits cooler weather and contemplative settings, projecting quietly but persisting well on skin through the amber-suede base.
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.
