Sweet William
Sweet William opens with a lift of cardamom and a thread of ginger, the spice sharp at first but already softening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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 Spicy60
- Cinnamon55
- Vanilla55
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Ylang-Ylang
- Styrax
- Ginger
- Cinnamon
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Cardamom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readSweet William opens with a lift of cardamom and a thread of ginger, the spice sharp at first but already softening. Cinnamon edges in within minutes, less culinary than cosmetic — warm, slightly powdered.
The heart is where the florals do their work: ylang-ylang takes the front, creamy and almost banana-tropical, with a quiet rose smoothing it. Vanilla rolls up underneath, tying the spice and flower together. The drydown is short and balsamic — styrax giving everything a slow, resinous fade, the cardamom still legible as a top note signature. Wears warm and close, a perfume that reads more comfort than statement, suited to cool-weather afternoons more than evenings.
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.
