Mambo for Woman
Ylang-ylang opens lush and slightly banana-creamy, its yellow-floral richness reading both narcotic and tropical.
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.
- Floral70
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Ginger
- Orange Blossom
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens lush and slightly banana-creamy, its yellow-floral richness reading both narcotic and tropical. The entry is immediately warm and feminine, with no citrus or aldehydic lift to thin it.
Ginger in the heart cuts through with fresh spicy buzz, lifted by orange blossom's honeyed-waxy white-floral warmth. The combination softens the ylang's heaviness, pulling it toward something brighter and more wearable.
Sandalwood, vanilla, and musk form the base, building a creamy sweet-woody cushion underneath the floral heart. The drydown is a plush ylang-vanilla over warm sandalwood, with the orange blossom holding through. Polished, sweet-floral, and built for cool-weather evening wear.
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.
