Mon Lys
Saffron and pink pepper ignite the opening with a dry, papery heat that crackles against the skin.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Pink Pepper
- Neroli
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readSaffron and pink pepper ignite the opening with a dry, papery heat that crackles against the skin. The trio of neroli, lily, and ylang-ylang lands moments later: neroli’s green-orange sparkle frames the lily’s cool waxiness while ylang-ylang injects a custard-like banana accent that keeps the white floral heart from turning too austere. As the spices recede, the bouquet softens into a creamy yellow-floral accord that feels simultaneously tropical and freshly laundered. Musk in the base does not add sweetness; instead it acts like clean cotton, extending the lily’s metallic edge so the scent lingers as a quiet, soap-adjacent skin scent. Projection stays within arm’s length for most of its life, making it office-friendly yet noticeably radiant on warm skin.
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.