Ilhabela
Ilhabela opens with an immediate pairing of cinnamon and almond — warm, slightly bakery-adjacent, with the cinnamon adding a dry heat that keeps the almond from tipping into confection.
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.
- Sweet70
- Vanilla70
- Almond60
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Almond
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
- Ambroxan
By the editors · 2 min readIlhabela opens with an immediate pairing of cinnamon and almond — warm, slightly bakery-adjacent, with the cinnamon adding a dry heat that keeps the almond from tipping into confection. Vanilla and heliotrope in the heart deepen the sweetness without introducing floral florality; heliotrope here reads as powdery and softly almond-forward.
Ambroxan in the base provides a clean, skin-close warmth with a faint marine texture — it lifts the composition just enough to prevent it from becoming heavy. The overall character is of a warm, cosy gourmand-oriental that leans tropical in name but spiced in delivery. Approachable and easy to wear in cooler weather.
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.




