Aegyptus
Bergamot and ylang-ylang open together brightly, the citrus cutting through the ylang's heady creaminess to keep the first impression clean rather than overwhelming.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Floral90
- Iris70
- White Floral60
- Musky
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Papyrus
- Iris
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot and ylang-ylang open together brightly, the citrus cutting through the ylang's heady creaminess to keep the first impression clean rather than overwhelming.
The heart settles into a bouquet of jasmine, rose, and iris, with papyrus lending a faintly dry, papery texture that keeps the florals from turning too soft. Iris anchors the mid-stage with its cool, slightly powdery character, holding the warmer jasmine in check.
Musk carries everything into the dry-down, pulling the composition toward a skin-close finish. The overall effect is a light, predominantly floral fragrance with enough dryness from papyrus and iris to avoid sweetness.
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.