L'Iris
Neroli and galbanum open green and bitter-bright, with galbanum's resinous edge sharpening the neroli's clean floral lift — an austere, almost vegetal opening rather than a sweet one.
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.
- Iris80
- Floral70
- Green60
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Galbanum
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Ambergris
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and galbanum open green and bitter-bright, with galbanum's resinous edge sharpening the neroli's clean floral lift — an austere, almost vegetal opening rather than a sweet one.
Magnolia and jasmine bloom in the heart with creamy-lemony white-floral richness that softens the green opening, but iris is already starting to show: dry, powdery, slightly metallic. As the base unfolds, ambergris contributes salty mineral warmth and musk rounds the edges, while iris drives the composition's signature character — cool, refined, slightly chilly.
Overall: a green-iris-floral with mineral warmth in the base, dressy and refined. Three-season versatility, daytime to evening. Moderate projection. The dry-down is a powdery iris-ambergris-musk that lasts well as a quiet sophisticated skin presence.
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.
