Lost Paradise
Ylang-ylang opens with a creamy, solar sweetness that immediately collides with saffron’s dry leather nuance and cardamom’s cool aromatic lift, creating a spicy-yellow flash that feels both humid and polished.
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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Leather
- Labdanum
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy, solar sweetness that immediately collides with saffron’s dry leather nuance and cardamom’s cool aromatic lift, creating a spicy-yellow flash that feels both humid and polished. Leather rises fast, folding the ylang’s lactonic edges into a supple hide accord while labdanum adds a tarry, incense-like thickness that mutes the florals and turns the composition smoky-resinous. Patchouli dominates the dry-down, pushing an earthy, slightly camphoraceous bitterness that keeps the leather from turning buttery and extends the scent’s dark tobacco-toned shadow for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length, making it wearable for cool evenings or smart-casual offices where you want subtle swagger rather than loud spice.
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.
