Hiris by Hermès

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Hiris

Floral Powdery · 1999 · Olivia Giacobetti

IrisCarrot SeedsCedarAmber

Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.

Reported longevity
Long
Reported sillage
Moderate
Typical occasion
Smart Casual / Social
Typical season
Winter

These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.

Modelled profile

Cool, rooty iris over carrot seed and cedar, powdery and softly earthen. A whisper of amber warms the base without weighing it down. Restrained and elegant, with a pensive, grey-green calm.

Taste Profile

The Romantic archetype

The Romantic

The Familiar Place

Found something that feels like home and never left.

Connection to home and your people is what you are all about. The fragrance found you as much as you found it. May those connections remain firm.

How Hiris smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, Hiris reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.

Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.

Warmthwarm, close0.76

Hiris reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 85th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Projectionmid-range0.38

Hiris sits mid-range on projection. That is 7th percentile for projection across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Riskfamiliar0.27

Hiris is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 29th percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Texturebalanced0.45

Hiris carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 42nd percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Sweetnessgourmand0.68

Hiris is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 86th percentile for sweetness across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.

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