Caresse
Ylang-ylang and musk open together, an unusual structure where the base note already declares itself at the top.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Almond65
- Fresh50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Musk
- White Musk
- Heliotrope
- Iris
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang and musk open together, an unusual structure where the base note already declares itself at the top. The ylang reads creamy and slightly banana-sweet, the musk adds clean skin-warmth.
White musk, heliotrope, and iris shape the heart into a soft powdery middle. Heliotrope adds cherry-almond dough sweetness, iris contributes a cool rooty texture, and the layered musks emphasise the close-to-skin character. The development is flat-arced rather than evolving.
Vanilla finishes alone with a warm, sweet-cosmetic close that integrates seamlessly with the powdery heart. Overall character: a soft musky-floral-vanilla composition designed to feel like skin-with-extra, suited to year-round casual wear and intimate occasions. Quiet projection, simple development, comforting in a powder-and-cream register rather than statement-making.
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.
