L de Lubin
The opening pairs creamy gardenia with a tropical-banana ylang-ylang, both sweet white florals but with different temperatures — the gardenia cool, the ylang warm and slightly indolic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tonka Bean
- Lily
- Iris
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening pairs creamy gardenia with a tropical-banana ylang-ylang, both sweet white florals but with different temperatures — the gardenia cool, the ylang warm and slightly indolic. There is no green or citrus opening to mediate them.
The heart layers iris over the white florals, lending a chilly, root-vegetable powderiness. May rose and lily round the bouquet, with tonka warming everything from below.
In the drydown, sandalwood, vanilla, and heliotrope produce a soft, almond-tinged powdery cushion, with patchouli and musk lending shadow. The overall character is a powdery floriental — dense and slightly old-fashioned, with a marshmallow-iris finish. It projects quietly after the first hour and stays close to skin, suited to cooler-weather evening or daytime wear.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
