Amber Ylang Ylang Parfum
Ylang-ylang opens syrupy and solar, its custard-like sweetness framed by a terse bergamot flash that keeps the top from cloying.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Amber80
- Warm Spicy70
- Sweet60
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Cinnamon
- Incense
- Bulgarian Rose
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens syrupy and solar, its custard-like sweetness framed by a terse bergamot flash that keeps the top from cloying. Within minutes the floral cream sinks into a warm heart where cinnamon bark crackles over incense and a muted Bulgarian rose lends a dry, tea-leaf facet that stops the dessert impulse. The base is a slow amber furnace: sandalwood provides creamy continuity while vanilla rounds the resin, letting the spice smolder rather than burn. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, softening to suede-like skin musk that favors cool evenings and layered fall knits.
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.