Iris 39
Iris 39 opens with a taut, almost medicinal lime paired with a hot ginger snap that quickly settles into something stranger.
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.
- Woody50
- Animalic50
- Violet50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Civet
- Lime
- Patchouli
- Musk
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readIris 39 opens with a taut, almost medicinal lime paired with a hot ginger snap that quickly settles into something stranger. The iris itself is not powdery or cosmetic but rooty and cool, closer to damp earth than makeup counter violet. That raw quality holds through the heart, where a whisper of rose barely registers against the patchouli and civet doing most of the work underneath.
What emerges is less floral study than skin scent, something private and close. The musk adds a clean, almost soapy hum, while the civet brings a faint animalic warmth without becoming overtly feral. It wears lean and unisex, never showy, with a persistence that feels more like a second skin than a statement.
For those who want iris stripped of its usual baroque trappings, this is the restrained, slightly odd alternative.
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.
