Iris Cendré
Bergamot opens cleanly, citrus without sweetness, quickly giving way to a cool, powdery iris that sits at the center of the composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Iris90
- Tobacco80
- Violet70
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Violet
- Labdanum
- Amber
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens cleanly, citrus without sweetness, quickly giving way to a cool, powdery iris that sits at the center of the composition. Violet deepens that iris accord, adding a faintly watery, almost slate-like quality that keeps the floral from reading as decorative.
The tobacco base arrives gradually, dry rather than sweet, and pulls the iris toward something more shadowed and mineral. Amber provides a soft resinous warmth that prevents the composition from becoming too austere. The "cendré" quality in the name is apt — this reads like iris caught in a curl of smoke.
It wears close to skin, deliberate in its restraint, and works well in transitional or cool-weather contexts where subtlety carries more weight than projection.
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.
