Terre d'Iris
Grapefruit and bergamot open it bright and slightly bitter — citrus that's been peeled rather than juiced, with the white pith left in.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Iris85
- Patchouli50
- Rose45
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Sage
- Rosemary
- Rose
- Orris
By the editors · 2 min readGrapefruit and bergamot open it bright and slightly bitter — citrus that's been peeled rather than juiced, with the white pith left in.
Sage and rosemary at the heart pull the composition into herbal territory, and rose threads a soft floral throughline. The herbs read sun-warmed, almost Mediterranean, keeping the rose from going romantic.
The drydown is the namesake — orris and iris over patchouli. Cool, rooty, almost mineral, with patchouli's earth giving the iris a damp-soil context rather than a powder one. It stays close and reads contemplative, a transitional fragrance for spring and fall, suited to office and casual wear.
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.