A Woodlands Fantasy The Golden Deer
Ylang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-sweet, immediately swirled with a dense amber glow that pushes the flower into custard territory.
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.
- Amber90
- Woody70
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-sweet, immediately swirled with a dense amber glow that pushes the flower into custard territory. Rose arrives almost on top, its petals candied by the same amber, so the heart reads like floral caramel rather than fresh bloom. Sandalwood steps in early, its milky wood slicing through the sugar to keep the accord from clking, while a second amber wave rewarms the base. Benzoin and vanilla thicken the dry-down, but frankincense threads cool smoke through the balsam, and patchouli adds a cocoa-dusted earth roughness that keeps the base from liquefying. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, perfect for cool autumn evenings or intimate winter gatherings.
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.




