Magnificat
Ylang-ylang, amber, and rose open simultaneously — banana-cream floral against golden resin against jammy pink, all three at full saturation from the first second.
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.
- Yellow Floral60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Amber
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang, amber, and rose open simultaneously — banana-cream floral against golden resin against jammy pink, all three at full saturation from the first second. No citrus or green top phase.
The heart layers more amber over sandalwood, doubling down on resinous-woody warmth. The composition gains depth rather than brightness, the rose holding a darker thread underneath.
The base goes ceremonial. Incense and frankincense add dry-air smokiness, benzoin contributes a sticky-sweet balsamic thread, vanilla rounds the resin, patchouli grounds it. Musk closes the loop. Overall character is an amber-incense composition with a creamy ylang-rose middle — dense, smoky, slightly liturgical, contemplative cold-weather wear.
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.




