Calypso Mimosa
Neroli and almond create an immediate sweet-citrus haze, the bitter orange blossom oil cutting the marzipan richness while bergamot adds a faintly metallic edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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
- Yellow Floral50
- Tuberose50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Almond
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readNeroli and almond create an immediate sweet-citrus haze, the bitter orange blossom oil cutting the marzipan richness while bergamot adds a faintly metallic edge. Tuberose surges forward early, its waxy lactones amplifying the almond’s nutty cream and pushing the composition toward white-floral custard; jasmine adds indolic depth, yet mimosa keeps the heart airy and pollen-dusted rather than syrupy. As the florals recede, sandalwood supplies a dry, milky wood that absorbs the residual sugar, and clean white musk traps the scent close to skin with a powdery halo. Projection stays polite, radiating no farther than arm’s length for roughly six hours, ideal for office or spring brunches. Overall character is a soft, almond-tinged mimosa soufflé that never cloysates despite its gourmand lean.
Scent twins
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