Amber
A creamy ylang-ylang opens broad and slightly banana-tropical, the kind of single floral lift that tells you the perfume will be unhurried and direct.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Amber85
- Vanilla70
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readA creamy ylang-ylang opens broad and slightly banana-tropical, the kind of single floral lift that tells you the perfume will be unhurried and direct.
The heart pairs jasmine with patchouli — the floral kept lush, the patchouli kept earthy — bridging the bright top to a dense base without complication.
Amber and vanilla close it out as a duet: warm, balsamic, faintly powdered, doing exactly what the name on the bottle suggests. The arc is short and confident; the perfume doesn't develop so much as settle. It will read as cozy, slightly old-world, and works best in cool weather where the resin can pool against 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.
