Oriental Flowers
A creamy white-floral bouquet opening on ylang-ylang with rose and bergamot as supports.
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.
- Rose55
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Orris Root
- Peru Balsam
By the editors · 2 min readA creamy white-floral bouquet opening on ylang-ylang with rose and bergamot as supports. The structure resolves quickly into orris and jasmine, and the orris is the pivot — its powdery, slightly cosmetic facet keeps the bouquet from going too tropical.
Peru balsam in the base is what makes the perfume feel oriental rather than just floral. The balsamic warmth pulls everything toward dusk: vanilla-adjacent without sugar, resinous without smoke. Soft projection. Better for cool evenings than warm afternoons, where the balsam has time to develop on the skin.
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.
