Ode
Almond dominates the heart, its nutty bitterness slicing through the white-floral mass of jasmine, rose and violet, preventing the bouquet from turning cloying.
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.
- Almond90
- Nutty60
- Fresh50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Peach
- Iris
- Violet
- Rose
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond dominates the heart, its nutty bitterness slicing through the white-floral mass of jasmine, rose and violet, preventing the bouquet from turning cloying. Iris follows with a cool, chalky dusting that scatters peach’s fuzzy sweetness into a dry, fuzzy pastel haze. Heliotrope in the base warms the composition, lending a soft marzipan edge that fuses with clean musk to create a powdered skin finish rather than a true gourmand. During wear the florals recede first, leaving almond-iris tandem suspended over the heliotrope musk cushion for several hours. Projection stays polite, projecting no more than forearm length; the scent feels most comfortable in cool spring afternoons or crisp fall office days where its restrained sweetness won’t compete.
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.
