Oriental Brûlant
Almond arrives already toasted, its warm nutty sweetness cushioned by a plush vanilla that reads more custard than pod.
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
- Balsamic50
- Nutty50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Styrax
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond arrives already toasted, its warm nutty sweetness cushioned by a plush vanilla that reads more custard than pod. Tonka bean folds in coumarin-like facets, adding soft tobacco and hay edges that keep the accord from flattening into pure dessert. Styrax quietly smolders underneath, lending a leathery resin anchor that stretches the sweetness into the dry-down without ever turning smoky. The composition stays linear: the almond softens, the vanilla thickens, and the resin warms, but no new players enter after the first ten minutes. Projection hugs skin yet leaves a persistent golden trail on scarves and coat cuffs for hours. Cool evenings and layered clothing amplify its cozy, pastry-tinged aura; heat sharpens the tonka’s hay facet and thins the vanilla.
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.




