Heibah
Ylang-ylang opens with a custard-like sweetness that immediately folds into lemon and bergamot, creating a creamy-citrus top that feels almost edible.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Neroli
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a custard-like sweetness that immediately folds into lemon and bergamot, creating a creamy-citrus top that feels almost edible. The heart blooms loud: tuberose takes center stage, supported by neroli’s honeyed sparkle and a plush Bulgarian rose that keeps the white floral creaminess from turning sugary. Jasmine adds an animalic purr, giving the bouquet a lived-in skin sensuality. As the florals settle, cinnamon ignites the base, threading warmth through sandalwood and cedar while caramel and praline melt into amber, producing a toasted-sugar wood effect. Patchouli and musk darken the edges, grounding the confection so it never floats away. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it office-tolerant yet noticeable after hours; cool fall evenings show off the cinnamon-praline glow best.
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.
