Iris Veritable
Lime and bergamot open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into a white-floral heart where jasmine and orange blossom dominate, their creamy lactones softening the citric snap.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readLime and bergamot open with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly folds into a white-floral heart where jasmine and orange blossom dominate, their creamy lactones softening the citric snap. Petitgrain adds a green, leafy facet that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary, while ylang-ylang contributes a banana-skin sweetness that lingers through the mid-stage. As the flowers settle, guaiac wood and cedar arrive dry and pencil-shaving crisp, vetiver lending a cool, rooty smoke that contrasts with benzoin’s warm, honeyed resin. Vanilla blooms late, coupling with the benzoin to create a soft amber cushion, yet iris butter remains the quiet spine, lending a cool, carrot-like powder that hovers just above the skin rather than announcing itself. Projection stays polite, a skin-to-arm’s-length veil perfect for spring office days or cool summer evenings when you want florals without 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.
