Ylang-Ylang
Ginger and cardamom spark a hot, peppery opening that feels like crushed spice pods hitting warm skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Cardamom
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Rose
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readGinger and cardamom spark a hot, peppery opening that feels like crushed spice pods hitting warm skin. Jasmine, ylang-ylang and rose bloom fast, their indolic creaminess softening the sting while keeping the yellow-petal sweetness forward. Vanilla thickens the heart, turning the bouquet into a velvety skin-hug that cedar keeps from sagging with dry wood shavings. Musk arrives late, a clean, cotton-laundry lift that lets the tropical flower accord linger without syrup. Projection stays polite, radiating a one-foot aura for six hours on fabric, perfect for close-office days or humid summer nights when you want scent-notice, not scent-cloud.
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.
