1472 La Divina Commedia
Ylang-ylang opens with a tropical, slightly rubbery sweetness that gives the composition an exotic density from the first spray.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Cinnamon70
- Balsamic60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cinnamon
- Jasmine
- Olibanum
- Rum
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a tropical, slightly rubbery sweetness that gives the composition an exotic density from the first spray. It doesn't sit alone long — cinnamon arrives quickly alongside it.
Cinnamon and jasmine thread through the heart, the spice warm and present without turning harsh. Olibanum adds a resinous, faintly smoky character that tethers the florals to something drier and more austere, preventing the sweetness from taking over.
Rum, benzoin, and amber build a rich, sticky-sweet base that feels genuinely warming. This is a heady, resinous composition that moves from sweet-spice through incense to a boozy amber finish — better suited to cool evenings than bright afternoons.
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.
