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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cardamom
- Bulgarian Rose
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-like sweetness that immediately feels solar and slightly spicy. Cardamom threads a cool green heat through the tropical bloom, sharpening the edges before a lush Bulgarian rose swells in the heart, turning the accord velvety and softly jammy. The rose never becomes loud; instead it drapes the ylang-ylang in a pink satin layer, while the lingering cardamom keeps the composition from sliding into custard territory. As the floral glow subsides, sandalwood steps forward, adding a dry, milky wood that sops up the ylang’s oils, and oakmoss lends a quiet forest-floor bitterness that anchors the scent in muted earth tones. Projection stays within arm’s reach for six hours, making it office-safe yet quietly sensual.
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.