Signature for Woman
Ylang-ylang dominates the heart with its custard-like sweetness, pushing jasmine into a supporting creamy role rather than a distinct white-floral counterpoint.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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 Floral80
- Earthy60
- Fresh50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vetiver
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the heart with its custard-like sweetness, pushing jasmine into a supporting creamy role rather than a distinct white-floral counterpoint. The composition skips any top structure, so this tropical yellow-floral accord lands immediately on skin, already melting into the base. Vetiver and patchouli dry the florals with earthy smoke, while amber adds a translucent resinous glaze that keeps the scent rounded rather than sharp. Over hours the musk expands, turning the earlier creaminess into a clean skin-whisper that still carries a faint ylang-ylang trace. Projection stays close, forming a soft halo effective for office or travel; cool spring days let the amber glow without the lactonic facet turning cloying.
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.