Mahabah
Petitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into creamy ylang-ylang, the flower’s banana-like sweetness softening the citrus edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Yellow Floral70
- White Floral60
- Vanilla60
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain opens with a bitter-green flash that quickly folds into creamy ylang-ylang, the flower’s banana-like sweetness softening the citrus edge. Jasmine and rose bloom together in the heart, their indolic and honeyed facets forming a plush white-yellow floral cushion that feels sun-warmed rather than sharp. Tonka bean lands first, adding faint almond depth before vanilla takes over, turning the base into a soft, slightly powdery custard that muffles the flowers without erasing them. During the dry-down the vanilla-almond accord lingers closest to skin, projecting a gentle, almost lactonic haze that keeps the composition cuddly and opaque. Projection stays polite, a one-arm-radius aura perfect for close encounters or humid spring afternoons when heavier ambers would cloy.
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.