Iris Medicis Intense
Galbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap that immediately powders as iris folds in cool carrot-like earth.
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.
- White Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Neroli
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
- Violet
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum snaps open with bitter-green sap that immediately powders as iris folds in cool carrot-like earth. The heart stacks neroli's honeyed orange glow against orange blossom's soapy brightness, letting both bloom across iris's chalky starch while violet keeps the line crisp and cool. Sandalwood's creamy wood arrives first in the base, smoothing the transition before leather darkens the palette and vanilla warms the leather without ever turning dessert-like. Clean skin musk finishes the iris rather than competing with it, stretching the powdery violet-iris accord into a six-hour skin haze that stays office-close yet quietly luxurious. Cool spring or shaded summer days; works, gallery openings, anywhere you want cool composure.
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.