Luxe Calme Volupte
The opening is unusual for the absence of citrus or aldehydes — galbanum cracks open green and resinous, almost bitter, while ylang-ylang slides underneath with a banana-cream warmth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Galbanum
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
- Opoponax
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is unusual for the absence of citrus or aldehydes — galbanum cracks open green and resinous, almost bitter, while ylang-ylang slides underneath with a banana-cream warmth. The contrast is immediate: cool sap against tropical petal.
Development slows and thickens. Iris emerges carroty and powdery, threading between the resins; opoponax and benzoin lend a balsamic, lightly smoky honeyed body that feels lived-in rather than sweet. Sandalwood and vetiver supply the woody backbone — milky on one side, mineral and rooty on the other. Projection is intimate, the kind that hovers a few inches off skin, and the texture reads waxy and slightly animalic.
The overall impression is a quiet, contemplative woody-balsamic with a green-floral entry — meditative, autumnal, more about atmosphere than 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.
