Wild Viola
Ylang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-sweet, its lactonic heft immediately cushioned by cool orange-blossom water.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Floral90
- Powdery80
- White Floral70
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and slightly banana-sweet, its lactonic heft immediately cushioned by cool orange-blossom water. Within minutes the heart blooms: heliotrope pushes almond-paste sweetness forward while iris dusts the bouquet with cool violet-tinted powder, and lily-of-the-valley supplies a dewy green lift that keeps the mix from turning sugary. As the flowers meld, tonka bean’s soft hay facet emerges, knitting the almond heliotrope to a vanilla that stays pale and fluff-powder rather than custard-rich. The overall effect is a pastel, talcum-weight floral that hovers close to skin, projecting no farther than a handshake for roughly five hours. Cool spring mornings, linen dresses, office days when you want prettiness 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.