Azalea
Ylang-ylang opens with a custard-sweet solar glare that immediately folds into heliotrope’s marzipan powder, creating a plush yellow-floral cloud.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Powdery60
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
- Rose
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a custard-sweet solar glare that immediately folds into heliotrope’s marzipan powder, creating a plush yellow-floral cloud. The heart pumps vanilla through that cloud, thickening it into an almond-cream backdrop against which a soft, jammy rose swells rather than blooms, keeping the texture dense and round. Myrrh arrives early in the base, lending a muted resinous tug that stops the confection from turning syrupy, while sandalwood supplies a dry, milk-powder woodiness and white musk stretches the whole accord into a clean, skin-hugging veil. Projection stays intimate for the first hour, then collapses to a warm, faintly salty skin gloss that persists as a private aura. Office-safe yet sensually cushioned, it works best in cool spring or mild fall weather when you want comfort without announcing it.
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.
