Fauni
Ylang-ylang dominates the heart, pouring out a custard-yellow floral that smells almost like banana custard left to warm in the sun.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Olibanum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the heart, pouring out a custard-yellow floral that smells almost like banana custard left to warm in the sun. Gardenia arrives seconds later, its creamy petals stretching the ylang’s lactonic edge while olibanum threads a cool, lemon-peel incense through the cream, stopping the bouquet from turning syrupy. As the flowers settle, benzoin and amber fuse into a chewy, toffee-like resin that grips the skin for hours, letting only quiet musk escape at the edges. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent glows rather than shouts, making it an easy reach for cool autumn nights or a subdued winter dinner date.
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.
