Heat Wave
Lemon snaps open with a tart, almost candied edge that quickly folds into a creamy coconut heart.
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.
- Herbal50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Lemon
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Coconut
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLemon snaps open with a tart, almost candied edge that quickly folds into a creamy coconut heart. Jasmine and ylang-ylang arrive together, their indolic lift turning the coconut from sunscreen-sweet to suntan-oil sultry while tuberose adds a fleshy, almost peach-skin thickness. Benzoin and vanilla in the base do not read as pastry; instead they steep the white petals in a salty, musky warmth that feels like skin still carrying beach air. Mid-stage the lemon has evaporated, leaving the flowers to float on a slow-moving, lactonic coconut stream that stays surprisingly close. Projection is intimate, wafting barely beyond personal space for six hours, perfect for humid summer evenings or post-gym cooldown when you want to smell like vacation without announcing it to the parking lot.
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.
