Just Like Heaven
Mandarin and petitgrain open with a citrus-green brightness that quickly softens.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Almond90
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Aquatic
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Tonka Bean
- Tonka Bean
- Petitgrain
- Ylang-Ylang
- Heliotrope
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readMandarin and petitgrain open with a citrus-green brightness that quickly softens. Ylang-ylang enters early, its creamy, slightly indolic quality muted here by heliotrope's almond-powdery undertone, which keeps things from going too heavy.
The heliotrope and tonka bean are the real core of this fragrance. Together they construct a warm, soft-almond sweetness — nuttier than vanilla, closer to marzipan — without becoming gourmand in any obvious way. Ylang sits on top of this rather than competing.
The base is warm and powdery, with tonka rounding everything into a gentle, skin-close finish. Longevity is moderate. This reads as a deliberately intimate, comfort-oriented fragrance rather than a statement piece.
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.
