Harvest 2009 Amarige Mimosa
Petitgrain and neroli launch a bitter-green flash that strips sweetness away from the almond, letting the nut read as dry marzipan rather than candy.
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.
- Almond50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Neroli
- Almond
- Ylang-Ylang
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readPetitgrain and neroli launch a bitter-green flash that strips sweetness away from the almond, letting the nut read as dry marzipan rather than candy. Ylang-ylang folds its rubbery banana tone underneath, creating a waxy yellow-floral cushion that softens the citrus edges. Mimosa heart arrives powdery and pollen-dusted, extending the almond’s dry granularity into a fuzzy, straw-like texture that hovers between flower and seed. Without base woods or resins, the late stage stays close to skin, a pale almond-mimosa dusting that smells like warm air inside a linen cupboard. Projection is intimate; best worn in spring daylight when its quiet pollen haze can still catch sun-warmed skin.
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.