Perfumes with Ylang-Ylang

Ylang-ylang smells rich, sweet, creamy and slightly banana-like, a tropical floral with honeyed, faintly spicy and almost custard-like facets on the skin. It comes from the yellow flowers of the Cananga odorata tree, grown mainly in the Comoros, Madagascar and Mayotte.

The flowers are steam-distilled in stages, and the first, finest fraction is called extra, followed by grades I, II and III. The scent is sunny and full-bodied. Ylang-ylang mostly sits in the heart of a fragrance. It pairs well with jasmine, tuberose, rose, vanilla, sandalwood, coconut and bergamot.

Ylang-Ylang appears in 8,033 perfumes in the Fisfis catalogue and is used mostly as a heart note.

Popular perfumes with Ylang-Ylang

• Kayali Fragrances Vanilla Candy Rock Sugar | 42 (2024)
• Lush Lust (2010)
• Chanel Gabrielle Essence (2019)
• Initio Parfums Prives Psychedelic Love (2017)
• The Body Shop White Musk (1981)
• Amouage Lyric Woman (2008)
• Versace Red Jeans (1994)
• Estee Lauder White Linen Estée Lauder (1978)
• Guy Laroche Fidji Eau de Toilette (1966)
• Carolina Herrera Good Girl Légère (2018)
• Dana Tabu (1932)
• Guerlain Mitsouko Eau de Parfum (1919)
• Narciso Rodriguez Narciso Eau de Parfum Ambrée (2020)
• Parfums de Marly Meliora (2013)
• Avon Perceive (2000)
• Givenchy Ysatis (1984)
• Van Cleef & Arpels First Van Cleef & Arpels (1976)
• Agent Provocateur Maitresse (2006)
• Tom Ford Santal Blush (2011)
• Hanae Mori Butterfly – (1996)
• Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds (1991)
• Calvin Klein Escape (1991)
• Creed Aventus for Her (2016)
• Lattafa Perfumes Qaed Al Fursan Unlimited (2022)

Notes most often paired with Ylang-Ylang

• Jasmine
• Sandalwood
• Musk
• Bergamot
• Vanilla
• Rose
• Amber
• Patchouli
• Vetiver
• Tuberose
• Orange Blossom
• Cedar