Ceylon
Ceylon opens with honey and jasmine sambac—warm, slightly waxy, natural rather than synthetic—before bergamot adds enough brightness to prevent the sweetness from becoming heavy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Honey60
- Oud60
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Jasmine Sambac
- Calabrian Bergamot
- Honey
- Sandalwood
- Black Tea
- Agarwood
By the editors · 2 min readCeylon opens with honey and jasmine sambac—warm, slightly waxy, natural rather than synthetic—before bergamot adds enough brightness to prevent the sweetness from becoming heavy. Black tea arrives in the heart as the defining element, its tannins running alongside agarwood to produce something astringent and cerebral, a counterweight to the honey's warmth. Sandalwood fills the space between, smooth and integrating. The base follows logically: amber and Madagascar vanilla bringing the fragrance to a quiet close, the kind of drydown that persists on skin without announcing itself. Ceylon is Xerjoff's most restrained oud composition—less about the wood's rawness than about how it absorbs and re-emits everything around it.
Scent twins
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