Youth-Dew Estēe Lauder Eau de Parfum
Youth-Dew is dense where most fragrances negotiate: it doesn't ease into anything.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 18 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.
- Cinnamon60
- Vanilla60
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Peach
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Narcissus
- Rose
- Cinnamon
By the editors · 2 min readYouth-Dew is dense where most fragrances negotiate: it doesn't ease into anything. The opening delivers peach, bergamot, and rose together in a warm, almost overripe cluster—narcissus adding a cold, waxy counterpoint that pins the whole thing from going purely sweet. The heart is richer still—cinnamon, clove, jasmine, and ylang-ylang stacked without apology, the spices cutting through the florals with authority.
The base is the real destination: oakmoss, vetiver, frankincense, amber, vanilla, and patchouli building over hours into something dense and tenacious. A fragrance less worn than inhabited—Youth-Dew doesn't blend into skin so much as establish itself on it, and remains through the day with the persistence that defines its era.
Scent twins
In this family
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