Essential Parfums

Velvet Iris

unisex · Launched 2025

7.3/ 10 · 262 votes

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Scent profile

Share of people who describe it this way

How it wears

Share of votes by people who wear it: 85 votes, Parfica open fragrance database.

Longevity
moderate50% of votes
Scent trail
moderate81% of votes
Season
spring44% of votes
Time of day
day53% of votes
All votes

Longevity · 48 votes

  • very weak
    2%
  • weak
    2%
  • moderate
    50%
  • long lasting
    44%
  • eternal
    2%

Sillage · 48 votes

  • intimate
    15%
  • moderate
    81%
  • strong
    2%
  • enormous
    2%

Season · 85 votes

  • winter
    35%
  • spring
    44%
  • summer
    21%

Time of day · 66 votes

  • day
    53%
  • night
    47%

Sillage: how far the scent is noticed by people around you. Season and time of day allow several answers, so shares there are of all answers given.

Notes

Top notes are the first minutes, heart is the next hours, base is what stays.

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About Essential Parfums Velvet Iris

Perfumer: Dominique Ropion

Velvet Iris by Essential Parfums is a 2025 creation by Dominique Ropion that blends iris with spice, green resins and leather. It is a textured, layered scent rather than a soft powdery iris.

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Velvet Iris by Essential Parfums is a 2025 creation by Dominique Ropion that blends iris with spice, green resins and leather. It is a textured, layered scent rather than a soft powdery iris.

The opening combines pink pepper for a bright, fizzy spice, tamarind for a tangy, fruity sourness and buchu, a herb with a blackcurrant-like, minty edge. At the heart, iris brings its cool, powdery, slightly earthy elegance, while mastic adds a resinous, piney freshness and galbanum gives a sharp green bite. The base turns warmer with sandalwood, a smooth Saffiano leather accord and labdanum, which supplies a dark, ambery richness.

Most wearers report moderate longevity, with nearly as many finding it long lasting, and the sillage is clearly moderate for most people. It is voted for autumn and spring, and is worn almost equally by day and at night. Worn by anyone, it suits someone who enjoys an unusual, refined iris for work, dinners or cooler days between seasons.

Velvet Iris — unisex fragrance by Essential Parfums (released 2025). Top notes: Buchu or Agathosma, Pink Pepper, Tamarind. Heart notes: Orris, Iris, Galbanum, Mastic or Lentisque. Base notes: Saffiano Leather, Sandalwood, Labdanum. — Parfica open fragrance database

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Quick answers

How much does Essential Parfums Velvet Iris cost in Germany?

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What does it smell like?

Mainly spicy, green, woody and floral. It opens with buchu or agathosma, pink pepper, tamarind; the heart is galbanum, iris, mastic or lentisque; the base is labdanum, saffiano leather, sandalwood.

Who makes it?

Essential Parfums (France). Launched in 2025. The perfumer is Dominique Ropion. Marketed unisex.

How long does it last?

People rate its longevity as moderate and its sillage as moderate. Based on 48 wearers’ votes.

When to wear it?

Most people wear it in autumn and spring, mostly daytime.

How is it rated?

7.3 out of 10 from 262 votes on Parfica open fragrance database.

Where does this data come from?

The rating and the votes on longevity, sillage, season and time of day come from Parfica open fragrance database. Notes, accords, perfumers and release data come from the ScentGlade catalogue (shared with the Olfactory app) and its editors.