Heart Of Ylang
Pink pepper and bergamot open dry-bright — pepper giving a small prickly lift, bergamot adding clean citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Cedar
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPink pepper and bergamot open dry-bright — pepper giving a small prickly lift, bergamot adding clean citrus. The top reads fast and contemporary, setting up the floral middle rather than dwelling.
Ylang-ylang takes the heart and runs the rest of the show — creamy, banana-tinged, slightly indolic, with a quiet honeyed warmth that gives the composition its character. No other floral or fruit interferes, so the ylang sits exposed and carries the wear on its own.
Sandalwood, cedar and musk close into a clean woody-musky drydown that smooths the ylang without sweetening it. Overall character is a ylang-soliflore with a soft woody base — warm-weather, daytime, casual or date, steady single-note feel.
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.
