Stairway To Heaven
Almond dominates from the first spray, sweet and slightly bitter, pressed straight from the nut.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Almond90
- Powdery60
- Fresh50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Heliotrope
- White Musk
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond dominates from the first spray, sweet and slightly bitter, pressed straight from the nut. Heliotrope arrives almost immediately, carrying a soft marzipan edge that folds the almond into a powdery cloud. Bulgarian rose cuts through the core, adding a dewy floral lift that keeps the accord from turning pastry. In the base, vanilla and white musk stretch the nutty heliotrope outward, while ambroxan injects a clean, airy glow and patchouli adds a quiet earthy backbone. The result smells like skin dusted with almond icing, staying close but persistent for most of a workday. Projection remains intimate; it blooms best in spring and early fall, ideal for office or weekend brunch when you want to smell edible without shouting.
Scent twins
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