Engel Dark
Magnolia opens with a creamy, lemon-tinged floral lift that quickly folds into anise's cool, licorice snap, creating a bittersweet top note that feels almost iced.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Anise
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Fig
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readMagnolia opens with a creamy, lemon-tinged floral lift that quickly folds into anise's cool, licorice snap, creating a bittersweet top note that feels almost iced. Ylang-ylang arrives early, adding a banana-sweet, rubber-polish richness that swallows the anise edge while black-currant lends a tart, cassis snap that keeps the heart from sagging into custard. Fig supplies a leafy, coconut-milk nuance, turning the composition toward a duskier, slightly salty green that shadows the yellow florals. Sandalwood in the base is dry and pale, more blond timber than oriental spice, so the late hours stay soft, woody and faintly milky rather than resinous. Projection sits at arm's length for four hours before collapsing to skin, making it an easy evening wear for cool spring or mild fall nights when you want intrigue without theater.
Scent twins
In this family
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