Réglisse Noire
Almond opens dry and pressed, carrying a faintly bitter green edge that keeps the nut from turning marzipine.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Almond90
- Nutty70
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Ylang-Ylang
- Amber
- Rose
- Vetiver
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond opens dry and pressed, carrying a faintly bitter green edge that keeps the nut from turning marzipine. Within minutes ylang-ylang arrives, lending a custard-like creaminess that lets the almond relax into a soft, toasted accord while amber supplies a low, honeyed glow beneath. Rose threads a clean, tea-like floral through the heart, stopping the gourmand drift from becoming syrupy. As the middle settles, vetiver cuts the sweetness with a wiry, rooty smoke, benzoin adds a resinous vanilla warmth, and patchouli brings a cocoa-brown earth that darkens the base without rough edges; skin-close musk finally blurs the edges into a suede-warm finish that stays close. Projection remains polite, wafting no farther than arm’s length for six hours; it feels most at home in cool spring evenings or crisp fall workdays when you want quiet, edible comfort without announcing dessert.
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.



