Violetta Nobile
Ylang-ylang opens with a creamy banana brightness sharpened by bergamot’s lemon-peel edge, setting a plush stage for the heart.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Mimosa
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy banana brightness sharpened by bergamot’s lemon-peel edge, setting a plush stage for the heart. Lily-of-the-valley injects cool green wateriness, while iris dusts the bouquet with cool, carrot-skin powder; mimosa’s soft yellow pollen and violet candied leaf fold in, creating a pastel floral pillow rather than a sharp violet soliflore. Vanilla slowly warms the base, turning the florals velvety and rounding cedar’s dry pencil shavings into a creamy, woody cradle. As hours pass, the scent relaxes into a skin-hugging haze of iris-vanilla dust lightly flecked with cedar, quietly sweet and freshly laundered. Projection stays within handshake distance, ideal for spring office days or cool summer brunches when you want a polite floral aura rather than a loud statement.
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.