High Frequency
Almond and heliotrope open with a sweet marzipan creaminess that instantly reads as lactonic.
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.
- Almond100
- Lactonic90
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Magnolia
- Jasmine
- Almond
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond and heliotrope open with a sweet marzipan creaminess that instantly reads as lactonic. Magnolia adds a lemon-peel nuance to the white-floral heart while jasmine supplies indolic depth, preventing the accord from turning purely goury. Sandalwood arrives early, its dry milkiness fusing with vanilla to form a soft, almost coconutty wood that cushions the florals rather than framing them. Over hours the blend relaxes into skin-like musk, the almond facet dimming and the heliotrope powder softening to a suede-powder finish. Projection remains intimate, a low-haze cloud that lingers on sweaters and hair. Cool spring and early-fall days, office-safe, work best.
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.
