Siracusa
Almond arrives immediately and stays prominent throughout — not marzipan-sweet but dry and slightly bitter at first, the way raw almond behaves before vanilla softens it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Almond95
- Nutty70
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Vanilla
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond arrives immediately and stays prominent throughout — not marzipan-sweet but dry and slightly bitter at first, the way raw almond behaves before vanilla softens it. The vanilla heart blends into this seamlessly, pulling things toward a warmer, creamier register.
Sandalwood and white musk in the base keep the composition from becoming gourmand. The sandalwood adds a dry, clean wood note that gives the sweetness some structural distance, while the musk ensures the whole thing wears close to skin.
This is a simple, intimate construction — linear in its arc, built around the almond-vanilla axis. It doesn't evolve dramatically but maintains a consistent quiet warmth from start to finish.
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.
