Frédéric Malle · 2000 · Pierre Bourdon

Iris Poudre

Top luxury$$$$$, 5 of 5

The houseFor women

VersionEau de Parfum

Soft aldehydic sparkle over rose, violet and ylang-ylang, a powdery iris heart, and creamy sandalwood, musk and tonka.

Frédéric Malle says

You’ll smell rose, violet, ylang-ylang, iris, sandalwood, musk and tonka bean.

More from Frédéric Malle’s description

It also mentions Aldehydes, White musk and Creamy vanilla of tonka bean.

The house’s page

The drawn Iris Poudre bottle

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Iris Poudre’s scent picture, a draft: rose, violet, ylang-ylang, iris, sandalwood, musk drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Iris Poudre, top notes: Rose, Violet, Ylang-ylang, Aldehydes

Heartas it settles

Iris Poudre, heart: Iris, Isoeugenol (clove)

Dry-downwhat stays

Iris Poudre, dry-down: Sandalwood, Musk, Tonka (coumarin), White musk

What’s inside it

What the label names

11 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.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 sweet2 spices1 powder

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

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholBHT (keeps it fresh)Vitamin EPentaerythrityl tetra-di-t-butyl hydroxyhydrocinnamate, not in Ingredients yet

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Quelques Fleurs L'OriginalHoubigant · shares rose, violet (sweet violet), ylang-ylang, orris and 3 more$250 for 100 ml · about half of Iris Poudre’s $470
Dia 40 WomanAmouage · shares rose, violet (sweet violet), ylang-ylang, orris and 2 more$550 for 100 ml · about the same as Iris Poudre’s $470
Lyric WomanAmouage · shares rose, ylang-ylang, orris, sandalwood and 2 more$395 for 100 ml · about the same as Iris Poudre’s $470
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.