Poudre
Almond opens with a marzipan sweetness that immediately powders down through violet’s cool, dusty facets.
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
- Yellow Floral50
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Mimosa
- Violet
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond opens with a marzipan sweetness that immediately powders down through violet’s cool, dusty facets. Mimosa adds a soft yellow-floral pollen fuzz that lifts the almond away from gourmand territory and lets the heart rose bloom clean and dry rather than lush. The rose never turns jammy; instead it stays pressed between the violet’s chalk and the cedar’s pencil-shave wood, creating a cosmetic blush effect. Vanilla in the base is sparing, mostly binding the almond residue to skin so the scent stays a skin-haze rather than a bakery cloud. Projection remains close, a veil that smells like vintage compact powder; it lingers six hours on fabric, less on moisturized skin. Office-friendly in cool weather, best where intimacy matters more than announcement.
Scent twins
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