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The opening rushes forward with praline's caramelized sweetness, edging toward burnt sugar without quite tipping over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Caramel65
- Amber60
- Patchouli55
- Fresh
The note pyramid
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Praline
- Amber
- Patchouli
- Praline
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening rushes forward with praline's caramelized sweetness, edging toward burnt sugar without quite tipping over. It's unabashedly dessert-like in those first minutes, the kind of scent that announces itself before you enter a room.
As it settles, patchouli emerges to anchor the sweetness with its earthy, slightly musty presence. The amber rounds everything out, adding warmth without much complexity. The effect is straightforward: sweet, warm, and enveloping, with just enough patchouli to keep it from reading as pure confection.
This is uncomplicated comfort fragrance for someone who wants to smell cozy and approachable. It plays in the same territory as mid-2000s gourmands but stays simpler than most, avoiding the layered compositions that defined the era's higher-end releases. Best suited to cool weather and casual settings where sweetness won't overwhelm.
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.
