Y
Y opens with a sharp, resinous galbanum that slices through gardenia's white petals and a hint of overripe peach.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Tuberose75
- Floral70
- Mossy65
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Gardenia
- Gardenia
- Plum
- Peach
- Peach
- Galbanum
- Tuberose
By the editors · 2 min readY opens with a sharp, resinous galbanum that slices through gardenia's white petals and a hint of overripe peach. The green bitterness fades quickly, giving way to a formidable white floral core—tuberose and jasmine layered thick, almost animalic in their intensity. Bulgarian rose and ylang-ylang add depth rather than sweetness, keeping the arrangement dense and heady.
The base is a mossy, woody chypre foundation that anchors all that floral volume. Oakmoss and vetiver provide earth, while civet gives a musky warmth that feels distinctly vintage. Sandalwood and patchouli soften the edges, but this never becomes comfortable or easy. It's a perfume that demands confidence, designed for a different era's ideas about femininity—bold, unapologetic, and unwilling to whisper when it can command attention.
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.
