Taipei
Iris provides an immediate powdery and earthy texture that feels soft and slightly root-like upon application, setting a muted and elegant tone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Woody50
- Lactonic50
- Iris50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Iris
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readIris provides an immediate powdery and earthy texture that feels soft and slightly root-like upon application, setting a muted and elegant tone. Guaiac wood emerges alongside it, contributing a smooth and slightly smoky woody character that complements the iris's dryness without overwhelming its delicate nature. The base introduces sandalwood and vetiver, which deepen the woody accord with a creamy and earthy richness that anchors the scent close to the skin. Musk adds a clean, skin-like quality that ensures the dry-down remains intimate and subtly persistent throughout the wear. This fragrance is linear in its evolution, maintaining its powdery-woody character from opening to base with minimal shift in accords or intensity. Best worn in cool weather for daytime or casual occasions, it projects softly and lasts around six hours before fading into a subtle trail.
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.
