Overture
Coffee opens black and sharply roasted, its bitterness immediately softened by almond's milky sweetness that swirls in before the accord can turn harsh.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Almond80
- Nutty60
- Warm Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Coffee
- Almond
- Caramel
- Coffee
- Amber
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCoffee opens black and sharply roasted, its bitterness immediately softened by almond's milky sweetness that swirls in before the accord can turn harsh. Caramel arrives early, folding the coffee into a sticky, toasted sugar glaze that dominates the heart and keeps the composition from ever reading as dry or austere. Vanilla and amber mount steadily beneath, turning the brew creamier and warmer until the fragrance settles into a soft, praline-laden skin scent that smells like the steam rising off a fresh almond latte. Projection stays within arm's reach for the first three hours, then collapses to a whisper of caramelized nuts that lingers through a workday.
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.
