Les Eaux Primordiales · 2015 · Arnaud Poulain

Iris Palladium

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

VersionEau de Parfum

Cardamom, lavender and cilantro over iris, violet and herbal mugwort, resting on vanilla-sweet sandalwood, amber, benzoin and cedar.

Les Eaux Primordiales says

You’ll smell cardamom, lavender, coriander (cilantro), artemisia (mugwort), violet, iris, sandalwood, vanilla, Guaiac Wood, amber, benzoin and Cedar Wood.

More from Les Eaux Primordiales’s description

It also mentions Woody, vanilla-like sandalwood.

The house’s page

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Iris Palladium’s scent picture, a draft: cardamom, lavender, coriander, artemisia, violet, iris drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Iris Palladium, when you spray it: Cardamom, Lavender, Coriander

As it settlesheart notes

Iris Palladium, as it settles: Artemisia, Violet, Iris

What staysdry-down notes

Iris Palladium, what stays: Sandalwood, Vanilla, Guaiacwood, Amber, Benzoin, Cedar, Virginia cedar, Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

18 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus6 herbs & lavender3 florals4 woods1 sweet1 spices1 powder

2 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell2

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Reflection 45 ManAmouage · shares cardamom, lavender, orris, sandalwood and 3 more$550 for 100 ml
Fakhar BlackLattafa · shares lavender, coriander, violet (sweet violet), orris and 3 moreabout $29 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Iris Palladium’s about $212
Beloved WomanAmouage · shares cardamom, lavender, violet (sweet violet), sandalwood and 3 more
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.