Gelsomino
Pink pepper crackles over bergamot’s bitter citrus, giving an airy sparkle that quickly folds into ylang-ylang’s custard-yellow petals.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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 Floral90
- White Floral50
- Musky50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper crackles over bergamot’s bitter citrus, giving an airy sparkle that quickly folds into ylang-ylang’s custard-yellow petals. The blossom’s banana-sweet lactones dominate the heart, turning the opening radiance into a creamy, almost oily floral sheath that feels more tropical than classical. Musk arrives early, a clean skin-washed cotton that thins the ylang’s richness rather than amplifying it, so the scent stays translucent and close. Within two hours the flowers recede, leaving a soft white musk with a faint peppery shimmer that lingers as a polite skin whisper. Projection stays at arm’s length, ideal for quiet offices or humid summer evenings when something lush yet weightless is wanted.
Scent twins
In this family
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