Fleur d'Iris
Iris and violet arrive together from the start — iris offering a cool, slightly earthy density while violet brings a softer, more candied edge.
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.
- Ozonic50
- Woody50
- Lactonic50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Frankincense
- Cedar
- Iris
- Violet
- Heliotrope
- Musk
- Tonka Bean
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readIris and violet arrive together from the start — iris offering a cool, slightly earthy density while violet brings a softer, more candied edge. Frankincense adds a thin resinous thread that prevents the opening from reading as purely floral, giving it a faint smoky structure.
Cedar sharpens the mid-stage, keeping the composition upright rather than letting heliotrope's almond-powder quality fully take over. Tonka bean and musk in the base nudge things toward warmth without tipping into sweetness. Mandarin in the general accord suggests occasional brightness that refreshes the heavier iris tones.
Overall: a poised violet-iris portrait with incense backbone. Restrained sillage, best in cool-to-cold weather.
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.
