Almaz
Almaz opens with a tart brightness—black currant sharpened by bergamot—that quickly softens into something plush and sweet.
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.
- Sandalwood75
- Tonka70
- Iris65
- Vanilla60
- Amber55
By the editors · 2 min readAlmaz opens with a tart brightness—black currant sharpened by bergamot—that quickly softens into something plush and sweet. The fruit doesn't linger long before giving way to a creamy iris-orris pairing, its cool, slightly rooty quality warmed by heliotrope's almond-like softness and a whisper of raspberry that feels more textural than juicy.
The base is where it settles into its skin: sandalwood rendered smooth and almost honeyed by brown sugar and vanilla, with tonka bean adding a hint of tobacco-like depth. The musk and amber act as blurring agents, pulling everything into a soft-focus haze. It's a sweet fragrance, but not cloying—there's enough iris to keep it composed.
This wears close and comforting, favoring intimacy over projection. Almaz suits those drawn to gentle gourmands with a woody backbone, perfumes that feel like cashmere against bare skin rather than silk under chandelier light.
