Nₒ 12
Ylang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-sweet floral lift that cardamom needles with cool spice while bergamot flashes a brief metallic citrus edge.
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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.
- Floral70
- Sweet60
- Lactonic50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
- Orange Blossom
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-sweet floral lift that cardamom needles with cool spice while bergamot flashes a brief metallic citrus edge. Heliotrope steps in early, its marzipan facet folding into the ylang's custard richness, and lily-of-the-valley keeps the heart airy rather than cloying; orange blossom adds soap-clean brightness and rose gives soft petal structure. The dry-down is a vanillic tonka blanket laid over sandalwood cream, vetiver sharpening the base with cool grass, oakmoss dusting green shadows, and ambroxan polishing the musks to a skin-glowing sheen. Projection stays polite, a one-foot halo that lingers for seven hours, ideal for office days when you want floral sweetness without shouting. Complexity is moderate; the heliotrope-tonka axis dominates, yet vetiver and oakmoss keep it from turning dessert-plate sweet.
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.
