24 rue de l'Université
Named for YSL's own address, this opens immediately on smoke — incense and cypriol cutting through with a resinous, almost metallic darkness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Smoky80
- Woody60
- Warm Spicy50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Cypriol Oil
- Cedarwood
- Suede
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readNamed for YSL's own address, this opens immediately on smoke — incense and cypriol cutting through with a resinous, almost metallic darkness. There's no preamble, no citrus or pepper warm-up; it goes straight for the throat. The cedar and suede heart offer structure without softening: the suede is dry, textural, more like a worn jacket than anything soft.
Sandalwood in the base pulls things back from pure austerity, lending a creamy undercurrent that keeps the smoke from reading as harsh. This is a clean-burning incense woody — austere but not cold, minimal but layered. It wears close to skin and suits anyone comfortable with dry, non-sweet compositions.
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.
