Ylang Ylang
Incense and frankincense open dry and resinous, with bergamot lifting the top edge — an unusual frame for a fragrance named after a flower, signalling that the ylang here will be incensed rather than tropical.
The scent fingerprint
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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.
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- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readIncense and frankincense open dry and resinous, with bergamot lifting the top edge — an unusual frame for a fragrance named after a flower, signalling that the ylang here will be incensed rather than tropical.
At the heart, jasmine and ylang-ylang are joined by iris, the iris cooling the floral and softening the white-flower indolic edge that ylang otherwise carries.
The base sits on vetiver, amber, musk and a small drop of caramel — the caramel never fully sweet, more an edge of warmth that keeps the resins from going austere. The arc moves from temple incense to a creamy floral and lands warm-but-restrained.
Scent twins
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