Nilang 2011
Nilang opens with a ripe, fleshy sweetness—melon and peach mingling in a way that feels less fruity-fresh and more warmly sugared.
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.
- Floral70
- Woody65
- Musky65
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Melon
- Peach
- Jasmine
- Clove
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readNilang opens with a ripe, fleshy sweetness—melon and peach mingling in a way that feels less fruity-fresh and more warmly sugared. It's an unexpectedly soft introduction from Lalique, lacking the sharp citrus common to florals of this era. The heart brings jasmine forward with clove adding a spiced, slightly resinous shadow that keeps the white flowers from becoming too polite or airy. Freesia drifts through more as texture than scent, lending a soapy smoothness.
The base rounds into sandalwood and amber with patchouli grounding the composition in something earthy and faintly sweet. Musk softens the edges further, creating a skin-like finish that hovers close. Nilang feels like a floral for someone who finds most florals too green or too powdery—this one leans into warmth and a gentle, almost narcotic sweetness that wears more intimately than loudly.
Scent twins
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