Malesia
Pink pepper and lily of the valley open Malesia with a floral sharpness that is brief but clean before the composition sinks into its real weight.
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.
- Amber85
- Balsamic65
- Vanilla65
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Lily of the Valley
- Amber
- Gurjum Balsam
- Amyris
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and lily of the valley open Malesia with a floral sharpness that is brief but clean before the composition sinks into its real weight. The heart introduces amyris and gurjum balsam — a resinous, faintly sweet wood pairing — with amber threading them together into something warm and unhurried. In the drydown, Laotian oud extends the depth without taking over; tonka and vanilla soften the finish into something skin-close but still present. Malesia sits in Xerjoff's core oriental register: rich, deliberate, and built for cold weather or evenings where the fragrance has room to expand.
Scent twins
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