Lys d'Or Eau Poudree
Galbanum opens with its characteristic dry, green-bitter sharpness before bergamot arrives to soften the bite.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Green
The note pyramid
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Magnolia
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readGalbanum opens with its characteristic dry, green-bitter sharpness before bergamot arrives to soften the bite. The contrast is intentional — vegetal austerity meeting citrus brightness. The opening is brief and transitions quickly toward a fully floral heart.
Tuberose, magnolia, lily, and ylang-ylang create a dense, opulent white floral statement. Ylang-ylang adds its banana-tropical undercurrent while tuberose dominates with narcotic warmth. The combination is heady without becoming suffocating — magnolia provides softer, cooler support.
Ambergris and vanilla in the base give a warm, slightly salty-sweet foundation. Musk keeps the drydown airy. The overall character is an opulent, vintage-feeling white floral with a powdery fade — grand in the heart, softer and warmer in the finish.
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.
