Adjatay - Cuir Narcotique
Ylang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-tinged sweetness that immediately coats the skin in a velvety yellow floral haze.
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.
- Leather80
- Tuberose70
- Yellow Floral60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens with a creamy, banana-tinged sweetness that immediately coats the skin in a velvety yellow floral haze. Tuberose and jasmine charge in next, their white-petal intensity turning the cream into something almost narcotic, while heliotrope adds a faint almond powder that keeps the bouquet from screaming. Leather arrives early, riding on styrax’s balsamic smoke, folding the florals into a sueded skin accord that smells lived-in rather than factory-fresh. Tonka bean blankets the dry-down, warming the leather with soft hay-vanilla facets and letting sandalwood’s milky wood keep the whole affair pliable for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; it feels made for cool fall nights when you want your scent to whisper, not shout.
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.
