Eau d'Ikar
Eau d'Ikar opens with a bright bergamot that quickly gives way to something more complex—a pale iris dusted with powder, threaded through with jasmine that stays just translucent enough to let the woodier elements breathe.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Sandalwood75
- Bergamot70
- Vetiver65
- Lemon65
- Iris60
By the editors · 2 min readEau d'Ikar opens with a bright bergamot that quickly gives way to something more complex—a pale iris dusted with powder, threaded through with jasmine that stays just translucent enough to let the woodier elements breathe. The heart never quite blooms into full floral territory; instead it hovers, cool and composed, like linen dried in shade rather than sun.
As it settles, sandalwood and vetiver anchor the composition with a soft, almost chalky dryness. The amber here reads less resinous than usual, more like warm skin than incense. What emerges is a study in restraint: clean without being sharp, woody without turning heavy, refined in a way that suggests leisure rather than formality. It wears close, best suited to someone who appreciates understatement and doesn't need fragrance to announce their presence from across a room.
