Santal Musc
Ylang-ylang opens with its characteristic creamy, slightly banana-like richness, sharpened immediately by cardamom's dry spice.
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
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cardamom
- Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with its characteristic creamy, slightly banana-like richness, sharpened immediately by cardamom's dry spice. The two notes complement each other — the spice cuts through the floral heaviness, producing an opening that feels warm rather than cloying.
Musk forms the structural core, broad and smooth, giving the fragrance its main identity as it develops. Sandalwood underpins everything with a soft, milky woodiness that extends the warmth into the drydown without adding much dryness.
The overall character is close-wearing and intimate — a warm, spiced floral-woody skin scent with a musk-forward finish. It projects minimally but reads as deliberate rather than weak, suited to quiet personal presence.
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.
