Rouge Hermes Eau Delicate
Ylang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-like, immediately leaning into rose and vanilla in the heart for a soft, sweet floral effect.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Amber70
- Yellow Floral60
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Rose
- Frankincense
- Labdanum
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-like, immediately leaning into rose and vanilla in the heart for a soft, sweet floral effect. Bergamot and jasmine in the surrounding pyramid keep the early stages from becoming syrupy.
The base is where the composition settles into character: frankincense and myrrh add a quiet smoky resin, while labdanum and amber give a warm, balsamic depth. Cedar and sandalwood finish things off with a dry-creamy wood pairing.
Overall this reads as a soft amber-floral with a faintly incense-tinged drydown rather than an outright resinous one. Suited to cool-weather wear, it leans intimate, with the sweet vanilla-rose accord lingering closest to skin.
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.
