Aqua Mahana
Sea salt opens bright, crystalline and bracing, immediately setting a shoreline tone that feels sun-bleached rather than aquatic.
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.
- Marine60
- Salty50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Sea Salt
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readSea salt opens bright, crystalline and bracing, immediately setting a shoreline tone that feels sun-bleached rather than aquatic. Ylang-ylang arrives within minutes, folding a creamy banana-facet floral into the salt crust, softening the edges while keeping the texture dry and windswept. Sandalwood emerges as the floral recedes, supplying a pale blond wood that stretches the salt-mineral accord into something skin-warm. Vanilla stays whisper-light, adding a round powdery finish that prevents the base from turning austere. The overall arc is linear: salty sparkle → creamy floral → suede-soft woods. Projection stays close, extending perhaps arm’s length for three hours before settling into a sandy skin scent. Best in hot weather, casual days, beach or desk, where subtlety reads as effortless rather than timid.
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.
