Princesses de Malabar
Bergamot flashes a quick metallic citrus edge before white petals of magnolia and jasmine bloom, their cool creaminess blanking the opening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Tropical60
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot flashes a quick metallic citrus edge before white petals of magnolia and jasmine bloom, their cool creaminess blanking the opening. Ylang-ylang pours a custard-like tropical sweetness through the heart, while ripe peach skin adds a faintly fuzzy fruit tang that keeps the bouquet from turning sugary. In the base, tonka folds vanilla into toasted almond, sandalwood supplies dry milk, and iris dusts the whole with powder, all suspended in a clean white musk haze that lasts. The scent stays polite, projecting an arm’s-length aura for six hours, tilting office-safe in spring yet cozy enough for cool fall evenings when you want creamy florals without loud sillage.
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.
