Bahia
Bahia opens with a loud floral trio — gardenia, ylang-ylang, and lavender — that creates an initial impression both lush and slightly herbal.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- White Floral70
- Floral60
- Balsamic50
- Tropical
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Lavender
- Ylang-Ylang
- Benzoin
- Amber
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readBahia opens with a loud floral trio — gardenia, ylang-ylang, and lavender — that creates an initial impression both lush and slightly herbal. The ylang contributes a heady, almost rubbery sweetness while lavender pulls in a cooler, aromatic direction, creating a productive tension in the opening minutes.
Benzoin in the heart acts as a soft resinous bridge, smoothing the florals and adding a faint warmth that anticipates the base. Cedar arrives with gentle woodiness, and amber settles in as the dominant base character — warm, slightly sweet, and balsamic.
Musk keeps the dry-down from becoming too dense. The overall effect is a warm white-floral with an amber-balsamic foundation — tropical in feeling but grounded.
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.
