Sensual & Decadent
Ylang-ylang bursts open with custardy banana sweetness, immediately dipped in almond-like heliotropin that powders the petals and muffles any indolic edge.
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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Almond70
- Amber60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Labdanum
- Heliotrope
- Oud
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang bursts open with custardy banana sweetness, immediately dipped in almond-like heliotropin that powders the petals and muffles any indolic edge. Labdanum rolls in next, a waxy amber resin that thickens the ylang into a dense, almost oily yellow floral blanket, while benzoin adds a smoky vanilla undercurrent. The oud here is dry, leathery, and surprisingly polite—no band-aid funk—anchoring the florals with splintered wood and a faint tobacco rasp that keeps the confection from turning syrupy. As skin warms, vanilla softens the woods into a creamy, nougat-laced finish that hovers close but persists for hours. Projection stays intimate, wafting no farther than a silk scarf, making it wearable for office days when you still want a whisper of decadence.
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.
