Bodacious
Almond and jasmine launch first, their creamy-bitter edge dusted with clove heat while freesia keeps the top translucent rather than syrupy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Vanilla80
- Nutty70
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Clove
- Freesia
- Amberwood
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond and jasmine launch first, their creamy-bitter edge dusted with clove heat while freesia keeps the top translucent rather than syrupy. Amberwood and double-layered vanilla arrive early, pushing the accord into toasted marzipan territory that the almond began; heliotrope adds powdered cherry skin, amplifying the sweet-nutty core. As the heart settles, vetiver splits the sweetness with cool, grassy smoke, and tobacco leaf gives the almond something earthy to cling to; tonka doubles down on soft coumarin bread crust while moss and sandalwood cushion the base in muted green woods. The dry-down stays close, a skin-hug of vanillic tobacco over nutty wood crumbs that lasts office-day hours with polite projection. Cool autumn days and smart-casual settings fit its restrained gourmand presence.
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.
