Histoire d'Eau
A ylang-ylang top — sweet, slightly tropical — quickly handed off to a warm-spicy heart of cardamom and nutmeg.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Amber50
- Leather50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cardamom
- Nutmeg
- Leather
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readA ylang-ylang top — sweet, slightly tropical — quickly handed off to a warm-spicy heart of cardamom and nutmeg. The spices keep the ylang from staying purely sweet; they push the composition into more characterful territory.
Leather and amber in the base anchor everything — soft-leathered, the way good amber-leather perfumes balance themselves, with musk lending a polished closure. The whole thing reads slightly old-school but with modern restraint. Suited to fall and winter, evening wear, when the warm-spicy character has the air to develop. A comfortable rather than aggressive composition.
Scent twins
In this family
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