Anacaona
Ylang-ylang opens creamy and solar, its banana-like sweetness immediately tempered by osmanthus’ apricot-skin nuance.
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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Osmanthus
- Jasmine
- Amber
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens creamy and solar, its banana-like sweetness immediately tempered by osmanthus’ apricot-skin nuance. The heart folds in jasmine’s indolic radiance and violet’s cool powder, while rose adds a soft red-fruit lift that keeps the white flowers from turning heavy. Amber reappears in the base alongside sandalwood’s milk-cream warmth, oakmoss lending a quiet forest-floor dampness that reins in the vanilla-musk cushion. On skin the scent swings between tropical floral custard and a shaded woodland trail, the amber-vanilla tandem glowing while moss and musk trail a skin-close haze. Projection stays polite, blooming best in spring evenings or mild fall days when humidity can coax the ylang-jasmine pairing without letting it cloy.
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.
