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Orange blossom and iris emerge in the heart without a conventional top note introduction — the orange blossom providing creamy, white-floral warmth and iris adding a cool, powdery rootiness.
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.
- Iris70
- White Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Orange Blossom
- Iris
- Cedar
- Ambrette
- Pink Pepper
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readOrange blossom and iris emerge in the heart without a conventional top note introduction — the orange blossom providing creamy, white-floral warmth and iris adding a cool, powdery rootiness. Pink pepper from the general list introduces quiet spice that prevents the composition from becoming too soft.
Cedar provides structural woody support in the base, while ambrette — a musky seed material — adds a natural, soft-musky texture rather than a synthetic clean-musk quality. The composition is spare and material-focused, with good interaction between the powdery iris and the white-floral warmth of orange blossom. Understated and refined rather than expressive.
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.
