Hanamachi
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening with a custard-sweet banana facet that the lemon and bergamot slice open, keeping the tropical bloom from turning cloying.
Have an image for this perfume? Sign in to contribute →
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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 Floral70
- Powdery60
- White Floral50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening with a custard-sweet banana facet that the lemon and bergamot slice open, keeping the tropical bloom from turning cloying. The heart is a crowded dressing-room of florals: jasmine adds indolic depth, iris contribute cool root-iris starch, heliotrope supplies marzipan dust, violet lends a powdery watercolor blur, and rose ties them with a faint honeyed thread. As the bouquet settles, vanilla and peach emerge, turning the composition into a velvety skin scent whose musk quietly extends the white-flower radiance rather than adding clean lift. Projection stays within arm’s length for six hours, making it office-safe yet still recognizably floral. Cool spring mornings and early fall afternoons suit its creamy-powdery equilibrium best.
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.