Totem Yellow
Totem Yellow opens on lemon — not the thin cologne kind, but a plumper, slightly waxy citrus that primes the composition for warmth.
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.
- Musky60
- Citrus60
- Fruity55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Peach
- Rose
- White Musk
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readTotem Yellow opens on lemon — not the thin cologne kind, but a plumper, slightly waxy citrus that primes the composition for warmth. The brightness sits in the foreground briefly before giving way.
Peach and rose carry the heart together, the fruit smoothing the rose's edges into something nectar-like rather than dewy. The combination reads soft and rounded, more late-afternoon than morning.
White musk and a touch of leather close the dry-down, the leather giving an unexpected cured warmth under the otherwise sunny architecture. It's a daytime fragrance with an evening tilt in the base, suiting transitional weather and informal hours.
Scent twins
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