Waidmanns Heil Intense
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening with a creamy, banana-sweet floral radiance that feels almost oily.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather80
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Jasmine
- Frankincense
- Leather
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening with a creamy, banana-sweet floral radiance that feels almost oily. Jasmine enters next, sharpening the bloom into something more animalic while frankincense weaves a resinous smoke through the petals, turning the bouquet dark and vaguely metallic. Leather lands early in the heart, drying the resins and flowers into a black hide that smells tanned and slightly sour. Vetiver in the base splits the difference: its rooty bitterness lifts the leather’s weight while anchoring the smoky incense trail so the scent never drifts into pure floral territory. On skin it moves from loud tropical petals to matte black boots in under an hour, then lingers as a dry, smoky leather veil for most of a workday. Projection stays arm-length, best suited to cool evenings, denim, and spaces where you want florals to scowl rather than smile.
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.
