Red Element
Almond opens with a distinct nutty, marzipan-like sweetness that is both creamy and slightly powdery.
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.
- Almond70
- Leather60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Leather
- Frankincense
- Tonka Bean
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond opens with a distinct nutty, marzipan-like sweetness that is both creamy and slightly powdery. Leather emerges quickly, adding a dry, supple texture that contrasts with the initial gourmand quality. Frankincense introduces a resinous, slightly smoky incense note that elevates the heart with a spiritual, meditative character. The base reveals tonka bean's vanillic sweetness blending with amber's warm resinous glow and musk's clean skin-like undertone. This scent evolves from a sweet-nutty opening to a drier, leathery-incense middle before settling into a soft, musky-amber dry-down. It projects moderately for the first two hours before becoming more intimate, lasting well through the day. Suitable for evening or formal wear in cooler seasons.
Scent twins
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