Bianco di Carrara
Iris opens cool and stony, its mineral facet cutting through a veil of heliotrope that adds faint marzipan sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Iris50
- Vanilla50
- Amber50
- Violet
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Violet
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Heliotrope
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readIris opens cool and stony, its mineral facet cutting through a veil of heliotrope that adds faint marzipan sweetness. Violet slips in next, pressing a soft, water-color floral print against the still-dominant iris, while suede underneath keeps the texture matte rather than plush. Tonka bean arrives slowly, warming the mix with light hay and coumarin, letting the amber glow just enough to stop the heart from feeling chalk-dry. The dry-down stays powder-clean, never syrupy; iris remains the spine, now cushioned by blond woods implicit in the suede. Projection sits at arm’s length for five hours before it folds into a pale, skin-close haze. Cool spring offices and linen-suited summer formals are its natural habitat.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
