Iris Cacao
Cinnamon and cocoa meet in a dry, spicy-chocolate opening that feels more bark than candy.
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.
- Chocolate70
- Warm Spicy60
- Soft Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Amber
- Cocoa
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and cocoa meet in a dry, spicy-chocolate opening that feels more bark than candy. The heart warms as vanilla and tonka add a rounded, almost nutty creaminess, letting iris slip in with a cool, carrot-seed powder that keeps the sweetness in check. Sandalwood and benzoin build a smooth, resinous base that turns the earlier cocoa into a dusty, woody chocolate skin-scent, while a trace of civet adds a barely-there growl rather than full animalics. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of the wear, making it office-safe yet comforting. Cool autumn days and layered evening clothes frame it best.
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.
