Heliotrope Ylang Ylang Citron
Lemon opens brisk and tart, a quick flash that drops within minutes.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Violet80
- Soft Spicy50
- Almond50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Lemon
- Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readLemon opens brisk and tart, a quick flash that drops within minutes. Jasmine and rose form a soft floral cushion where ylang-ylang lands, adding banana-sweet richness while heliotrope supplies powdered almond skin. Violet keeps the heart cool and slightly metallic, stopping the bouquet from turning syrupy. Amber and vanilla warm the base, turning the earlier florals into a fuzzy, skin-close haze that smells like warmed icing sugar. Musk stays low, extending wear to a quiet six-hour skin whisper rather than a trail. Projection sits at arm’s length for the first hour, then collapses to personal space; best for spring and early fall days when you want a comforting, non-cloying sweet veil rather than a statement.
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.
