Unforgettable
Ylang-Ylang dominates the opening with its custard-like creaminess, immediately absorbing the sharper edges of bergamot and lemon so the first impression reads as soft banana custard rather than citrus sparkle.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-Ylang dominates the opening with its custard-like creaminess, immediately absorbing the sharper edges of bergamot and lemon so the first impression reads as soft banana custard rather than citrus sparkle. Gardenia and jasmine arrive next, but they’re folded into that same ylang base, creating a single plush white-floral pillow that muffles any green or indolic facets the blossoms might have carried. Black currant peeks through for roughly twenty minutes, lending a tart purple glint that keeps the heart from clumping into wax, then retreats as sandalwood and vanilla rise. In the dry-down the creamy ylang persists, now lacquered by a pale amber-vanilla glaze while vetiver supplies a quiet straw-like dryness that stops the base from sugaring.
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.
