Rhapsody
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening with creamy banana-like sweetness that immediately folds into earthy vetiver.
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.
- Yellow Floral90
- Fresh50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening with creamy banana-like sweetness that immediately folds into earthy vetiver. The heart keeps the ylang prominent while patchouli adds a chocolate-brown soil dimension that prevents the floral from turning cloying. Vanilla arrives as a softening agent rather than dessert, creating a lactonic cushion that rounds both the floral and earthy edges. The dry-down stays close to skin where patchouli's cocoa facets merge with vanillic benzoin-like warmth, leaving a suede-gentle impression rather than loud projection. This reads as a humid-weather skin scent that works for office or casual evening wear when you want subtle exotic creaminess without announcing presence. Projection stays within handshake distance for five to six hours before settling into a washable musky trace.
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.
