Iris Shot
Pink pepper opens with a dry rosy-spicy crackle, cardamom adding its green-aromatic lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Almond50
- Aromatic50
- Woody50
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Cardamom
- Almond
- Iris
- Ambroxan
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper opens with a dry rosy-spicy crackle, cardamom adding its green-aromatic lift. The first minutes feel airy and slightly sparkling, more about lift than warmth.
Almond and iris are the heart's twin engines. The almond reads dry and marzipan-soft, never veering into cherry or syrup, while iris brings its cool root-vegetable powder, faintly carroty and mineral. Together they create a chalky-creamy chord that's the perfume's signature — smooth, slightly waxy, not quite gourmand. Ambroxan then radiates underneath with its salty woody hum, and Virginia cedar adds a dry pencil-shaving lift.
Overall character: an austere modern iris-almond — powdery without being old-fashioned, woody without being heavy. Sillage moderate; long quiet drydown.
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.
