Wood Intense
With orris as the only listed top note, the opening is dry, carroty and slightly powdery from the first moment.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Iris50
- Powdery50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Orris
- Moss
- Oud
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readWith orris as the only listed top note, the opening is dry, carroty and slightly powdery from the first moment. There is no citrus to brighten things and no green to broaden the entrance.
The heart is essentially silent on the pyramid, so the iris simply continues to develop. It thins slightly as the top oils evaporate and what reads underneath is the early lift of the base. The transition is barely perceptible.
Moss, oud and ambergris close out the composition. The oud is restrained, mossy notes give the base a damp, slightly forested edge, and ambergris contributes a warm marine-mineral undertone. Overall the arc is a sparse iris-into-woody-animalic — minimalist, slow-moving, more meditation than performance.
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.