Ange ou Demon
Ange ou Démon opens with a dry, medicinal scratch of saffron and thyme that feels almost austere—an unusual greeting for what becomes a thoroughly creamy floral.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Sweet80
- Vanilla75
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Saffron
- Thyme
- Lily
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tonka Bean
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readAnge ou Démon opens with a dry, medicinal scratch of saffron and thyme that feels almost austere—an unusual greeting for what becomes a thoroughly creamy floral. The herbal sharpness recedes quickly, making way for a soft, pillowy lily-ylang duet that hovers close to the skin. There's none of the indolic sharpness that ylang can bring; instead, it's rounded and sweetened, almost powdery.
The vanilla-tonka base pulls everything into a warm, ambered finish, though the oakmoss adds just enough bitterness to keep it from turning purely gourmand. The composition walks a line between angelic florals and something darker, richer—the title's duality made literal. It's a scent for someone who finds strict categories limiting, wanting softness with an edge of odd herbal intrigue. Familiar in its sweetness, strange in its opening.
Scent twins
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