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 16 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.
- Woody75
- Sweet70
- Iris65
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Orris
- Raspberry
- Heliotrope
- Iris
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.
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.
