Chameleon
Chameleon begins with a sun-drenched blast of ylang-ylang and citrus, almost tropical in its brightness, before pink pepper adds a subtle rasp at the edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Woody75
- Salty70
- Vanilla65
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Pink Pepper
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Coconut
- Jasmine
- Saffron
By the editors · 2 min readChameleon begins with a sun-drenched blast of ylang-ylang and citrus, almost tropical in its brightness, before pink pepper adds a subtle rasp at the edges. Within minutes, the perfume shifts into something warmer and more ambiguous—coconut milk softened by jasmine, a whisper of clove, and an unexpected saline note that suggests skin rather than surf.
The base settles into a creamy, resinous embrace where sandalwood and vanilla meld with opoponax and a grounding vetiver-patchouli backbone. The progression is genuinely metamorphic, moving from floral exuberance to something quietly animalic and close-worn.
True to its name, this is a perfume that refuses to sit still, making it difficult to categorize but easy to wear for those who enjoy fragrance as conversation rather than statement. It wears differently on everyone, which is precisely the point.
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.
