Embruns d'Ylang
Embruns d'Ylang opens with a salt-laced bergamot that reads as sunlit coastal air before the ylang-ylang arrives in earnest.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Honey60
- Vanilla55
- Salty50
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Salt
- Bergamot
- Jasmine Sambac
- Ylang-Ylang
- Honey
- Clove
By the editors · 2 min readEmbruns d'Ylang opens with a salt-laced bergamot that reads as sunlit coastal air before the ylang-ylang arrives in earnest. The heart is tropical and honeyed — jasmine sambac adds a creamy green underpinning to the ylang while clove keeps the sweetness from softening into something formless. It is a warm-weather composition that leans beach-humid rather than resort-fresh.
Patchouli and iris in the base give the fragrance a rooting that prevents it from feeling like mere sunscreen. Vanilla ties the structure together in the manner typical of the guerlinade, though here it reads more coconut-adjacent than gourmand. Wears close-to-skin; better in heat.
Scent twins
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