Flor d'Arancio
Ylang-ylang dominates the opening with its custard-like banana sweetness, immediately announcing a creamy white-floral character that feels almost lactonic.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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
- Yellow Floral70
- Musky60
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Lily of the Valley
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the opening with its custard-like banana sweetness, immediately announcing a creamy white-floral character that feels almost lactonic. Jasmine joins quickly, adding an indolic edge that cuts through the ylang's richness while lily of the valley contributes a dewy green facet that prevents the heart from becoming overly cloying. The white-floral accord maintains remarkable consistency through the wear, with the jasmine's animalic undertones becoming more pronounced as the ylang ylang's initial sweetness settles into a softer, powdery dimension. Musk in the base doesn't introduce new territory but rather extends the floral bouquet's longevity while adding a clean skin-like quality that keeps the composition wearable rather than theatrical. Projection stays moderate with an intimate sillage radius that makes this appropriate for office environments during spring months when its fresh white florals can breathe without becoming overwhelming in warmer temperatures.
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.
