Yohji Essential
Gardenia and clove open with unusual tension — the floral richness of gardenia against the medicinal, almost antiseptic warmth of clove.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Clove
- Grapefruit
- Grapefruit
- Galbanum
- Galbanum
- Raspberry
By the editors · 2 min readGardenia and clove open with unusual tension — the floral richness of gardenia against the medicinal, almost antiseptic warmth of clove. Grapefruit adds brightness; galbanum contributes a sharp green edge. It's a startling, complex opening that refuses easy categorization.
Jasmine, ylang-ylang, and rose form a dense, opulent floral heart. The ylang-ylang amplifies the gardenia from the top; jasmine adds indolic depth; rose provides classical structure. There's a heavy sensuality to this heart that suits the Yohji fashion aesthetic — opaque and uncompromising.
Moss, labdanum, patchouli, and musk form an earthy, slightly dark base — labdanum giving warmth and animalic resonance, patchouli adding earthiness, moss contributing a chypre-like coolness. A sophisticated fashion-forward chypre-floral that rewards patience over first-spray impressions.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
