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Yves Saint Laurent · Est. 2004

Cinema

Cinema opens with a soft, powdery luminosity that feels less like stepping into darkness and more like the glow of a silver screen.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2004
Statusenriched
2004 · Fragrance
mus·van·jas·amb
Rating
4.1
10.3k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 5 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.

  • Musk
    75
  • Vanilla
    70
  • Jasmine
    65
  • Amber
    55
  • Iris Powder
    40

By the editors · 2 min readCinema opens with a soft, powdery luminosity that feels less like stepping into darkness and more like the glow of a silver screen. The jasmine and peony at its heart bring an easy floral sweetness without drama, their presence more whispered than announced. There's a gentle richness here rather than anything heady or indolic.

As it settles, white musk and vanilla blend into a warm, slightly ambery cushion that stays close to the skin. The benzoin adds a subtle balsamic quality, rounding out the sweetness without tipping into dessert territory. It's polished and undemanding, the kind of fragrance that suits someone who wants to smell quietly elegant without making a statement.

Cinema feels like an artifact of mid-2000s femininity—approachable, safe, designed for broad appeal. It won't challenge or surprise, but it does what it sets out to do with competence and restraint.

Filed: Yves Saint LaurentSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap