Ylang in Gold Edition Speciale
Ylang in Gold Edition Speciale opens on geranium and citrus — a green, slightly leafy framing that you don't usually expect from a tropical-floral, and that keeps the early sweetness in check.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 2 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.
- Vanilla70
- Amber20
The note pyramid
- Citruses
- Geranium
- Sandalwood
- Ylang-Ylang
- Coconut
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readYlang in Gold Edition Speciale opens on geranium and citrus — a green, slightly leafy framing that you don't usually expect from a tropical-floral, and that keeps the early sweetness in check.
The heart is the title delivered: ylang-ylang big and creamy, propped on sandalwood that adds a buttery weight rather than a dryness. The base then turns gourmand, with vanilla and coconut taking the floral and pulling it toward sun-warmed lotion territory — solar, not beachy.
It suits warm evenings and shoulder-season afternoons; the geranium open keeps it from reading too dessert-like, and the vanilla-coconut close gives it lasting close-skin presence.
Scent twins
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