Fleur d’Iris
Violet opens cool and papery, immediately setting a powdery tone that the composition never abandons.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Violet
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Vanilla
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readViolet opens cool and papery, immediately setting a powdery tone that the composition never abandons. Jasmine arrives next, adding a creamy white floral lift that keeps the iris from turning too chalky, while vanilla warms the heart and softens the violet's green edge. Ambergris and vetiver in the base provide a salty-mineral counterweight, letting the powder hover instead of collapsing into sweetness. On skin the violet-iris accord stays dominant for hours, the musk merely extending its reach rather than adding new color. Projection stays moderate, creating a polite sillage bubble perfect for office or spring gallery openings.
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.
