La Tarte Tatin
Brown sugar crackles on skin first, its molten crystals carrying a faint burnt edge that keeps the sweetness from flattening.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Fresh50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Caramel
The note pyramid
- Brown Sugar
- Tonka Bean
- Apple
- Vanilla
- Caramel
By the editors · 2 min readBrown sugar crackles on skin first, its molten crystals carrying a faint burnt edge that keeps the sweetness from flattening. Apple slices arrive next, simmered until their skins wrinkle and release a jammy acidity that slices through tonka’s hay-like creaminess, preventing gourmand collapse. Vanilla and caramel pool underneath, the vanilla staying surprisingly sheer, more custard skin than ice-cream scoop, while caramel lends a slow-motion chew that stretches the apple’s tart flash into an hour-long amber glow. Projection stays close, a whispered dessert steam that hovers just outside personal space, perfect for cool autumn days when you want comfort without announcing pastry from across the room.
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.