Blue Roan
Ylang-ylang dominates the heart, releasing a custard-yellow floral that smells simultaneously oily and banana-sweet.
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.
- Woody60
- Fresh50
- Marine50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amberwood
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the heart, releasing a custard-yellow floral that smells simultaneously oily and banana-sweet. Amberwood rides beneath it, lending a dry, resinous woodiness that keeps the bloom from turning syrupy, while vanilla adds a rounded, almost edible creaminess that fills the spaces between wood and flower. On skin the trio stays close and linear: the ylang-ylang’s rubbery petals flutter for an hour, then the amberwood’s blond timber steadies the base, letting vanilla’s pod-like warmth linger without confectionary excess. Projection stays intimate, tracing a low, skin-hugging halo for roughly four hours. Quiet, creamy, and slightly tropical, it reads best in cool weather when you want a relaxed, close-wearing comfort rather than statement sillage.
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.