Embrace Periwinkle & Iris
Embrace Periwinkle & Iris opens with a clean bergamot note and quickly settles into its stated territory: iris and violet, joined by jasmine, form a soft, powdery floral combination that is precisely what the name implies — periwinkle-blue in character, mild and exactly feminine.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Iris90
- Powdery85
- Woody50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Violet
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readEmbrace Periwinkle & Iris opens with a clean bergamot note and quickly settles into its stated territory: iris and violet, joined by jasmine, form a soft, powdery floral combination that is precisely what the name implies — periwinkle-blue in character, mild and exactly feminine.
Iris provides the cool, starchy pallor at the heart, violet adds a suede-soft sweetness, and jasmine introduces just enough white floral warmth to prevent the composition from feeling too cool or too austere. The balance is achieved without drama: nothing here overwhelms, nothing leaves the brief.
Benzoin and vanilla close things with a warm, gently sweet drydown — the standard soft-oriental base for this type of composition, executed cleanly. Embrace Periwinkle & Iris is a well-made entry-point fragrance: accessible, pretty, undemanding. It does exactly what it promises.
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.
