Lys Fume
Lys-Fume opens with a bright snap of pink pepper that quickly softens into something warmer and more conspiratorial.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Vanilla75
- Balsamic55
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Nutmeg
- Rum
- Ylang-Ylang
- Madagascar Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLys-Fume opens with a bright snap of pink pepper that quickly softens into something warmer and more conspiratorial. The nutmeg here isn't culinary—it's resinous and faintly medicinal, setting a tone that feels deliberately off-kilter for what appears to be a floral vanilla.
The heart introduces rum-soaked ylang-ylang, but this isn't tropical or sunlit. It's dense, almost brooding, with the ylang's banana-like sweetness pressed into something darker by the spirit-laced accord. As it dries down, Madagascar vanilla emerges thick and sticky, bolstered by labdanum's amber-brown depth and styrax's leathery, balsamic edge. The result is less lily perfume than it is a study in contrasts: sweet but shadowed, plush but slightly unsettling.
This is Tom Ford navigating the space between opulence and strangeness. It suits those who want vanilla with complications, who prefer their florals a little troubled. Not for the office, but compelling in low light.
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.
