Agent Provocateur Maitresse
The ylang-ylang announces itself immediately, heady but softened by an unusual restraint.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Powdery70
- Iris65
- Amber55
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Violet Leaf
- Osmanthus
- Iris
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readThe ylang-ylang announces itself immediately, heady but softened by an unusual restraint. This isn't the tropical bombshell you might expect from the name—it's more measured, almost subdued, with violet leaf adding a crisp, green counterpoint that keeps the opening from turning syrupy.
As it settles, osmanthus brings a subtle apricot-leather quality, while iris lends a powdery coolness that drapes over the composition like expensive fabric. The heart feels quietly opulent rather than loud, a studied contrast to the house's more obvious provocations.
The base is warm but never cloying—amber and musk provide soft skin-closeness, while cedar adds just enough structure to prevent the whole from collapsing into pure sensuality. It's surprisingly wearable for something marketed with such deliberate innuendo, a floral oriental that suggests intimacy without demanding attention. Best suited to someone who prefers their seduction implicit rather than announced.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
