Mayura
Ylang-ylang opens buttery and solar, its custard-like sweetness immediately haloed by castoreum-civet fur that roughs the edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Mossy80
- Yellow Floral70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Oakmoss
- Amber
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Incense
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens buttery and solar, its custard-like sweetness immediately haloed by castoreum-civet fur that roughs the edges. Oakmoss and rose arrive together: the moss lays a cool, bitter-green carpet while the rose adds a bruised-petal softness that keeps the animalics from turning feral. Over the first hour the base materials rise through the moss; sandalwood sandalwood and ambergris create a salty, skin-warm blond wood accord that feels like hair dried by sea wind. Vetiver sharpens this wood with a dry, rooty snap, and incense smoke curls above, adding a church-pew resin that slowly overtakes the ylang. Late dry-down is fur and ash: musks fuse with the remaining civet to produce a warm, almost powdery animalic hush while incense powders the sandalwood into grey, papery dust.
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.
