Amber Nuit
Ylang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-sweet lift that the lemon keeps bright rather than syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Powdery60
- Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lemon
- Orris
- Cedar
- Iris
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-sweet lift that the lemon keeps bright rather than syrupy. Within minutes the heart folds in powdery iris and orris, their carrot-like starch softening the tropical flower while cedar adds dry wood grain. The base trades brightness for dusk: patchouli brings a dark chocolate earthiness that the leather tans into a muted suede, letting the iris linger as a cool violet haze. Wear-time shows slow descent: the ylang recedes, cedar sharpens, and the leather–patchouli accord warms to skin-close musk. Projection stays polite, extending an arm’s length for six hours; office-safe yet quietly sensual for cool autumn evenings.
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.
