Aoud Velvet
Ylang-ylang opens buttery and solar, its custard-like sweetness immediately cushioned by a plush vanilla that turns the floral almost almond-creamy.
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.
- Yellow Floral70
- Vanilla60
- Sweet50
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Tonka Bean
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens buttery and solar, its custard-like sweetness immediately cushioned by a plush vanilla that turns the floral almost almond-creamy. Orange blossom slips in quietly, adding a clean white-floral lift that keeps the ylang from cloying while soft sandalwood anchors the base with dry, milky woods. As the tonka bean warms on skin, it releases a faint cherry-marzipan facet that marries the vanilla and wood into a smooth, suede-like finish. The scent stays close, projecting no farther than arm’s length for six-to-eight hours, making it an effortless choice for cool spring evenings or intimate fall dinners when you want something softly sweet but never sugary.
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.