Ilanguara
Ylang-ylang opens creamy and solar, its banana-sweet heft immediately cushioned by a bright lemon-tart lemon wedge that keeps the bloom from turning syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lemon
- Incense
- Almond
- Benzoin
- Guaiac Wood
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and solar, its banana-sweet heft immediately cushioned by a bright lemon-tart lemon wedge that keeps the bloom from turning syrupy. Within minutes the heart folds in almond paste warmed by benzoin, creating a marzipan-meets-incense accord that feels like toasted nuts drizzled with resinous honey while a thin ribbon of frankincense smoke curls upward. Guaiac wood and cedar dry the core, lending a pencil-shaving crispness that stops the confection from cloying, while vetiver threads a cool, grassy bitterness through the base that flanks the soft vanilla pod finish. Projection stays polite, radiating barely a forearm’s length for six hours, then settling into a skin-glow of blond woods, almond husk and faint incense ash. Cool fall days and smart-casual offices suit it best; the restrained sweetness never shouts across a desk yet lingers warmly on a scarf.
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.