Series 7: Sweet - Sticky Cake
Almond and honey open with a dense, nutty sweetness that feels almost paste-like on skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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
- Honey80
- Sweet70
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Honey
- Brown Sugar
- Iris
- Myrrh
- Myrrh
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond and honey open with a dense, nutty sweetness that feels almost paste-like on skin. Brown sugar arrives quickly, melting the almond into a caramelized glaze while iris powders the edges, keeping the accord from turning syrupy. The myrrh base steers the dry-down away from dessert clichés, lending a faintly medicinal, resinous bitterness that dries the sugar and leaves a dusty, incense-tinged trail. Over hours the composition softens to a skin-close, halvah-like veil where honey’s animalic facet quietly hums against the myrrh’s balsamic dust. Projection stays modest, creating a private scent halo rather than a room-filling cloud. Cool evenings and layered fall wardrobes give the resin enough moisture to bloom without turning stale.
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.
