L'Aimant
L'Aimant is a 1927 Coty classic that has been reformulated more times than its wearers like to admit, but the skeleton holds up — a powdery aldehydic floral-chypre in the same architectural family as Chanel No.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 19 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.
- Jasmine50
- Rose50
- Musk45
- Oakmoss45
- Bergamot40
By the editors · 2 min readL'Aimant is a 1927 Coty classic that has been reformulated more times than its wearers like to admit, but the skeleton holds up — a powdery aldehydic floral-chypre in the same architectural family as Chanel No. 5, released six years later.
The opening is bright, almost shimmery — aldehydes and bergamot with an immediate white-floral lift. The heart is a rose-jasmine-ylang bouquet given structure by violet and iris. The drydown is a classic chypre base: sandalwood, vetiver, amber, and a whisper of vanilla. Longevity varies by formulation but the modern bottle holds four to six hours. A nostalgic fragrance; a grandmother's dressing-table scent worn proudly or not at all.
