Shahd
Ylang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-like sweetness that immediately sets a tropical tone.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- White Floral70
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tuberose
- Amber
- Vanilla
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-like sweetness that immediately sets a tropical tone. Tuberose steps in early, amplifying the white-floral density and adding a faintly rubbery edge that keeps the composition from turning syrupy. Amber and vanilla merge in the base, turning the florals into a warm, softly powdered custard, while cedar adds a splinter-dry wood note that prevents cloying. Musk lingers close to skin, extending the amber-vanilla accord for hours but keeping projection polite. The overall effect is a round, sweet white-floral cocoon suited to cool evenings or layered under a coat.
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.
