37 rue de Bellechasse
A spare, architectural opening: black pepper and juniper arrive dry and resinous, with nagarmotha — a smoky Indian sedge root — adding a medicinal earthiness that sets this apart from conventional iris compositions.
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.
- Iris60
- Smoky60
- Woody50
- Oud
The note pyramid
- Nagarmotha
- Juniper
- Black Pepper
- Incense
- Oud
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readA spare, architectural opening: black pepper and juniper arrive dry and resinous, with nagarmotha — a smoky Indian sedge root — adding a medicinal earthiness that sets this apart from conventional iris compositions. Iris absolute asserts itself quickly, powdery but not soft, sharpened by incense and threaded through with oud.
The base settles into patchouli, benzoin, and musk: dark, resinous, and slow to develop. Named for YSL's historic atelier at 37 rue de Bellechasse, this Le Vestiaire des Parfums piece wears close and announces nothing loudly. It rewards proximity rather than projection. Best suited to those who favor austere orientals with a recognizably Parisian restraint.
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.
