Shalimar Yellow Gold Limited Edition
Cedar and lemon open dry and bright, the wood slicing the citrus into thin, resinous shards that feel more woody than fresh.
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.
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Vanilla50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readCedar and lemon open dry and bright, the wood slicing the citrus into thin, resinous shards that feel more woody than fresh. Vetiver and patchouli arrive quickly, their earthy-smoke tethering the cedar while iris powders the heart, keeping the jasmine-rose duo from turning lush; the result is a cool, muted floral wrapped in dry woods. As the incense ignites, it fuses with sandalwood and vanilla to form a smoky-amber ember, yet civet and leather cut through the sweetness, adding a slightly sour, skin-like growl that lingers for hours. Projection stays arm’s length, never loud but persistently resinous, ideal for cool evenings or formal events when you want presence without chatter. Complexity is high: the scent keeps shifting between woody smoke, powdered floral and animalic leather for 8-plus hours before settling into a soft, musky-amber skin trace.
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.
