Orris Noir
Orris Noir starts with a peppery citrus jolt — pink pepper biting into bergamot — and immediately begins to cool toward the iris that gives the perfume its name.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Herbal
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readOrris Noir starts with a peppery citrus jolt — pink pepper biting into bergamot — and immediately begins to cool toward the iris that gives the perfume its name. It does not bloom so much as condense.
The iris is rooty rather than powdery, more rhizome than petal, holding a metallic gleam that anchors everything around it. There is no floral sweetness here; the heart reads almost grey.
The base turns smoky and resinous: incense, guaiac wood, a dry patchouli, with myrrh adding a soft balsamic darkness. Orris Noir is the iris pulled toward shadow — austere, slightly ecclesiastical, with a quiet androgyny that suits cold rooms and good tailoring.
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.
