Wirtaner
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening with a creamy, banana-like sweetness that immediately fuses with bergamot's citrus sparkle and a plush rose heart.
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.
- Yellow Floral80
- Rose50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Bergamot
- Rose
- Jasmine
- Peony
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening with a creamy, banana-like sweetness that immediately fuses with bergamot's citrus sparkle and a plush rose heart. Jasmine and peony add a lush white-floral layer, amplifying the ylang's tropical heft while keeping the texture airy rather than syrupy. The base shifts to sandalwood polished by amber, then thickens as vanilla and caramel melt together, turning the scent into a soft, edible amber that clings to fabric. Projection stays within arm's length for the first three hours before collapsing to a skin-hugging caramel glow that lingers through evening. Cool fall nights and dressed-up casual settings suit its sweet yellow-floral radiance best.
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.
