Obscuratio 25
Ylang-ylang opens dense and creamy, that distinctive banana-floral character with a slight oily sweetness, very front-loaded since there's no other top note to compete with it.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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 Floral80
- Patchouli70
- Floral60
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens dense and creamy, that distinctive banana-floral character with a slight oily sweetness, very front-loaded since there's no other top note to compete with it.
The composition has no formal heart, so the ylang continues into the base directly. There's a moment of pure single-floral exposure, where the bloom feels almost tropical and slightly intoxicating, before the patchouli starts to surface beneath it.
Patchouli in the base reframes everything. It adds an earthy, slightly damp depth that grounds the ylang and pulls it toward something more meditative and dark-floral. The drydown becomes a quiet, narcotic combination of yellow floral over rooted earth. A focused two-note study, well-suited to cool evenings and intimate settings.
Scent twins
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