Eau de Biarritz
Ylang-ylang opens with a creamy, almost banana-sweet lift that bergamot quickly slices into a bright, coastal sparkle.
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.
- Salty70
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Seaweed
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy, almost banana-sweet lift that bergamot quickly slices into a bright, coastal sparkle. Rose adds a soft pink center, keeping the top from turning fully tropical. The heart swaps flowers for salty-green seaweed wrapped around tonka’s almond-like warmth, while magnolia continues the floral thread but now humid and beachy. Sandalwood twin grades—one milky, one dry—arrive early in the base, carrying benzoin’s honeyed resin and a discreet vanillic pod that feels more woody than edible-gourmand. On skin the scent stays close, projecting like sun-warmed skin at arm’s length for about five hours, then folding into a salty-sweet sandalwood haze perfect for casual summer days by the water.
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.