Scent Bar 100
Iris opens cool and dusty, with a pencil-lead quality that sets a contemplative tone — no citrus brightness, no soft floral cushion.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Smoky70
- Iris60
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Iris
- Myrrh
- Frankincense
- Patchouli
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readIris opens cool and dusty, with a pencil-lead quality that sets a contemplative tone — no citrus brightness, no soft floral cushion.
The heart drives the perfume's character: myrrh and frankincense layer dry resinous smoke over patchouli's earthy bite. This is church-incense territory with a bitter herbal underside, the iris-resin combination producing something that reads almost mineral.
The base pivots warmer without abandoning the gravity. Ambergris adds a salty-skin warmth, vanilla and honey soften the resin's dry edges, and musk smooths everything into a worn finish. The drydown is the most accessible movement — sweetened incense with a faint animalic glow. Overall an incense-led oriental that values restraint and texture over volume.
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.
