Altair
Gardenia and ylang-ylang leap out first, creamy and banana-sweet, while black-currant lends a tart purple edge that keeps the white flowers from turning soapy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- White Floral90
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and ylang-ylang leap out first, creamy and banana-sweet, while black-currant lends a tart purple edge that keeps the white flowers from turning soapy. The heart is the same trio intensified: jasmine’s indolic lift threads through gardenia’s waxy petals, ylang-ylang’s custard richness thickening the air; citrus from the opening is still flickering, but only as a background sparkle. As the flowers settle, vetiver cuts the cream with cool, rooty smoke, amber and vanilla warm the underside, and patchouli adds a cocoa-brown earthiness that anchors the bouquet for hours. Projection stays at arm’s length for the first three hours, then hugs closer in a soft musk-amber skin aura that feels dressed-up yet tropical; it shines in humid warmth or indoor evening events where the white florals can bloom without competition.
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.
