Samsara Guerlain 1989 Extrait
Ylang-Ylang dominates the opening with creamy banana-like sweetness that softens the citric snap of lemon and bergamot, creating a plush yellow-floral haze.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Amber70
- Woody60
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Violet
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-Ylang dominates the opening with creamy banana-like sweetness that softens the citric snap of lemon and bergamot, creating a plush yellow-floral haze. Jasmine soon swells through the heart, its indolic richness amplifying the ylang while rose adds a clean soap facet that keeps the bouquet from turning syrupy. Sandalwood and vanilla anchor the base, their lactonic warmth folding iris powder and tonka bean into a seamless almond-pale amber trail. Over hours the peach skin top recedes and the composition settles into a buttery sandal-iris accord, lightly dusted with musk that hovers just above skin. Projection stays intimate yet persistent; the extrait concentration best suits cool evenings, formal dinners, or quiet fall nights when you want scent to accompany rather than announce.
Scent twins
In this family
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