Musk Oil No. 6
Ylang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-sweet, its custard richness immediately cushioned by bergamot’s thin, lemon-peel sparkle.
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.
- White Floral70
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Musk
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-sweet, its custard richness immediately cushioned by bergamot’s thin, lemon-peel sparkle. Jasmine enters next, trading the top’s brightness for a narcotic white-floral pulse that magnifies the ylang’s buttery facets while the musk begins to rise, adding a clean-skin warmth that blurs the flowers into something softly human. As the heart settles, white musk doubles down on that cotton-clean aura, sanding away the petals’ indolic edges until only a pale, soap-like glow remains; sandalwood sneaks in underneath, lending a dry, milky wood that keeps the composition from turning entirely into laundry. The dry-down stays close, a second-skin whisper of wood-flour and talc that lasts a full workday but never shouts. Quiet offices, spring white blouse, cool humid mornings.
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.
