Bela
Ylang-ylang opens with its characteristic rich, creamy sweetness — slightly rubbery and tropical, with bergamot providing a citrus link.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Tuberose80
- Sweet70
- Floral70
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Caramel
- Tuberose
- Raspberry
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with its characteristic rich, creamy sweetness — slightly rubbery and tropical, with bergamot providing a citrus link. Caramel in the top already signals the gourmand direction this fragrance will develop.
Tuberose and jasmine in the heart amplify the ylang-ylang's richness, building a dense, heady white floral accord with a sweet undertow. Raspberry adds a bright, slightly tart fruitiness that cuts against the floral heaviness and keeps the mid-section from becoming cloying. Iris introduces powdery structure.
Sandalwood, amber, vanilla, and musk form a warm, smooth base. The overall character is a lush floral-gourmand — sweet and opulent without being straightforwardly dessert-like. Best suited to evenings and cooler weather.
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.
