La Selection My Ylang
Ylang-ylang opens loudly here, its heady, almost rubbery richness immediately flanked by jasmine and a soft lily of the valley lift.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens loudly here, its heady, almost rubbery richness immediately flanked by jasmine and a soft lily of the valley lift. The rose adds structure without competing, keeping the opening legible rather than blurred.
As it settles, the floral cluster softens into something warmer, with vanilla emerging in the base to round off the sharper tropical edges of the ylang. This transition is gradual rather than dramatic.
The result sits in familiar territory: a creamy, yellow-floral composition with just enough sweetness to feel approachable. It reads as uncomplicated daywear, best in moderate temperatures where its warmth doesn't tip into heaviness.
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.
