Pas De Velours
Ylang-ylang opens buttery and solar, its custard-like banana facet already folding into sweet vanillin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Incense
- Vanilla
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens buttery and solar, its custard-like banana facet already folding into sweet vanillin. Within minutes frankincense arrives, not churchy but a dry, paper-thin smoke that slices the creaminess and keeps the composition from tipping into dessert territory. The vanilla base swells forward, softening the incense until both blur into a single, continuous yellow haze that sits close to skin with minimal projection. Evolution is almost horizontal: the tropical floral top loses some brightness, yet the smoky-vanilla cushion underneath simply thickens, gaining a mild balsamic warmth. Best worn in cool weather where the lactonic ylang can stay fresh; office-safe because sillage stops at arm’s length and nothing ever feels loud or provocative.
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.
