Mahila
Ylang-ylang dominates the heart with custard-yellow petals dripping coconut-lactone richness that folds into damask rose’s jammy red bloom.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Vanilla60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Damask Rose
- Sandalwood
- Olibanum
- Labdanum
- Benzoin
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang dominates the heart with custard-yellow petals dripping coconut-lactone richness that folds into damask rose’s jammy red bloom. The pairing creates a tropical floral butter that lands immediately on a resinous base where sandalwood’s creamy lumber meets frankincense’s lemon-peel smoke. Labdanum and benzoin pour molten toffee thickness through the incense, while vanilla seeds the accord with a soft custard vein that keeps the rose from drying out. Patchouli arrives late, adding a cocoa-dark earth stripe that steadies the confection and extends wear into a dusty wood-and-resin skin veil. Projection stays within arm’s length; the scent glows longest in cool weather and feels most natural for unhurried evenings or low-lit creative work.
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.
