Royal Musk
Ylang-ylang opens buttery and rubbery, its banana-sweet heft immediately coating bergamot’s fleeting citrus sparkle.
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.
- Floral70
- Honey50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens buttery and rubbery, its banana-sweet heft immediately coating bergamot’s fleeting citrus sparkle. The heart folds orris’s cool carrot-powder over jasmine’s indolic cream and lily-of-the-valley’s watery green, creating a plush white-floral pillow that softens the ylang’s oily richness. As the flowers meld, a clean white musk rises from below, shearing off the petals’ sweetness and leaving a talc-like haze that feels like ironed linen. Wear stays close, a skin-whisper perfect for office days or humid summer nights when you want presence without projection.
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.
