Sublime Blossom
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening, releasing a custard-like sweetness that immediately feels creamy and solar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Freesia
- Sandalwood
- Ambergris
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening, releasing a custard-like sweetness that immediately feels creamy and solar. Orange blossom joins quickly, adding a honeyed white-floral lift, while freesia keeps the heart airy so the bouquet never cloys. The base steers the scent toward skin: sandalwood supplies dry cream, ambergris gives a salt-skin glow, and vanilla rounds edges without overt gourmand heft. Musk stays close, turning the late dry-down into a soft, clean whisper rather than a trail. Projection stays intimate, hovering just outside the collar for five hours before settling into fabric. The composition reads like sun-warmed skin after a beach day—tropical florals rinsed by salt and softened by wood—ideal for warm spring weekends or balmy summer nights when you want presence without announcement.
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.
