Harvest 2008: Amarige Ylang-Ylang
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening, its custardy banana facet made brighter by neroli's honeyed sparkle and petitgrain's green twig snap.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Almond50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Almond
- Ylang-Ylang
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening, its custardy banana facet made brighter by neroli's honeyed sparkle and petitgrain's green twig snap. Almond's powdery marzipan folds into the tropical flower, thickening the texture before mimosa's fluffy pollen heart arrives to add airy yellow facets that keep the dessert-like heft from cloying. The composition stays close to skin, slowly shedding fresh-coconut facets of ylang until only a faint almond husk remains five hours in. Projection stays polite, forming a one-foot soft-focus cloud ideal for spring office days or humid summer brunches. The limited pyramid delivers exactly what it advertises: a single-flower soliflore sweetened by nutty sugar rather than evolving into classical Amarige's full white-floral chorus.
Scent twins
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