Lys Carmin
Lys Carmin reads exactly as its name implies — a red lily, peppered.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Cinnamon50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Lily
- Pink Pepper
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readLys Carmin reads exactly as its name implies — a red lily, peppered. The opening pairs lily petal with pink pepper, a trick that makes the floral feel breathed-on rather than dewy.
Ylang sits in the middle, lending tropical depth without ever tipping into fruit. The base is restrained: sandalwood and vanilla in small doses, just enough to give the lily something to settle against. The composition stays close, never showy, and is best understood as a refined floral built for daytime — the perfumed equivalent of a single stem in a clear vase.
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.
