For Ever
Sparse by construction — ylang-ylang and bergamot at the top, then a hard pivot into incense and patchouli at the base with little in between to bridge them.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Patchouli60
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Blackcurrant Syrup
- Bergamot
- Fruity Notes
- Orchid
- Lotus
By the editors · 2 min readSparse by construction — ylang-ylang and bergamot at the top, then a hard pivot into incense and patchouli at the base with little in between to bridge them.
The opening reads as a soft tropical floral with citrus support; nothing complicated, nothing held back. The dry-down is the contrast: smoky resin and earthy patchouli, dense and meditative, with no white-floral residue carrying through.
The absence of a heart is the perfume's defining trait. It plays as two scents stitched together rather than a continuous arc — which can read as either austere or unfinished depending on the wearer. Cool weather, indoor settings.
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.