Essential Parfums
Velvet Iris
unisex · Launched 2025
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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 weak2%
- weak2%
- moderate50%
- long lasting44%
- eternal2%
Sillage · 48 votes
- intimate15%
- moderate81%
- strong2%
- enormous2%
Season · 85 votes
- winter35%
- spring44%
- summer21%
Time of day · 66 votes
- day53%
- night47%
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.
Heart notes
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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 France?
No partner shop in France has it in stock right now; the page stays with the facts.
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.