Solano
Ylang-Ylang dominates from first spray, releasing its custard-sweet, banana-tinged petals that feel simultaneously oily and luminous.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Lactonic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
- Ylang-Ylang
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-Ylang dominates from first spray, releasing its custard-sweet, banana-tinged petals that feel simultaneously oily and luminous. The flower’s creamy lactones latch onto tonka’s soft almond facet, forming a velvety yellow-floral accord that muffles patchouli’s early earthiness rather than erasing it. Within twenty minutes the patchouli stem emerges, drying the ylang’s sugars into a faintly tobacco-ish leaf that keeps the heart from turning syrupy. As skin warmth increases, tonka’s coumar-marzipan layer re-liquefies, letting the composition swing between custard and dry bark every time you move. Projection stays at arm’s length for about five hours, then collapses into a vanillic skin musk that smells like sun-warmed hay. Cool fall days and smart-casual offices suit its polite sillage best.
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.
