No 10 White Oud
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening with a custard-sweet, banana-like creaminess that immediately feels lactonic rather than fresh.
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.
- White Floral70
- Lactonic60
- Yellow Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Tonka Bean
- Patchouli
- Violet
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening with a custard-sweet, banana-like creaminess that immediately feels lactonic rather than fresh. Lily-of-the-valley adds a cool, green-tinged soapiness underneath, keeping the ylang from turning cloying while setting up a clean white-floral frame. The heart brings tonka forward, its almond-coumarin facet locking onto the ylang's lactones to create a soft marzipan accord, while patchouli supplies a dry cocoa earth that keeps the sweetness airborne rather than syrupy. Violet inserts a dusty, pastel-powder nuance that blurs the edges, and May rose offers only a whisper of honeyed petal, more texture than bloom.
Scent twins
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