Ilaya
Ginger and cardamom launch with a peppery, slightly fizzy warmth, setting a spice-forward stage from the first second.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Incense
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cardamom launch with a peppery, slightly fizzy warmth, setting a spice-forward stage from the first second. The opening reads polished, neither sharp nor harsh.
Jasmine and ylang-ylang move into the heart with a creamy yellow-floral richness, the ylang adding a banana-tinted sweetness that softens the spice transition. The florals feel substantial without dominating the spice frame.
Incense, benzoin, and coffee anchor the base with a smoky, balsamic weight balanced by the bitter-sweet roast of coffee. The dry-down leans warm and resinous, holding a long, close-wearing finish that reads gourmand-adjacent without becoming sugary. The arc has a recognisable shape but several distinctive notes.
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.
