Musc
Ylang-ylang opens creamy and faintly tropical, with a soft yellow warmth that hints at banana before the almond settles in.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Almond50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Almond
- White Musk
- Amber
- Musk
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and faintly tropical, with a soft yellow warmth that hints at banana before the almond settles in. The first minutes are gentle, less sweet than expected — more milky-petal than candy.
Almond at the heart adds a marzipan-soft nuttiness, dry-skin warm rather than dessert-bright. White musk and amber arrive almost immediately to wrap the composition in a clean, plush halo — slightly powdery, slightly skin-like, with the kind of glow that radiates a few inches off the body. The musk dominates the long drydown.
Overall character: a soft musky-floral skin scent with a quiet almond-amber heart — minimalist, comforting, and persistent in its soft hum on the wrist.
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.
