Swim / SX
Ylang-ylang dominates with a creamy, banana-sweet floral radiance that lands between custard and suntan oil.
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.
- Herbal50
- Marine50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates with a creamy, banana-sweet floral radiance that lands between custard and suntan oil. Musk slips underneath, turning the bloom into something skin-warm and faintly salty, like hair dried after a swim. There is no pyramid to speak of; the two materials fuse quickly and stay linear, softening only in volume rather than shape. Projection hugs the body, projecting no farther than forearm distance, and the scent remains beach-day casual, best worn in humid heat when you want to smell like skin rather than perfume.
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.
