Jasmins Marzipane
Marzipan arrives first—rich, almost edible almond paste draped over white jasmine.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Floral65
- Almond50
- White Floral50
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Leather
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMarzipan arrives first—rich, almost edible almond paste draped over white jasmine. The opening is surprisingly literal, less abstraction than confession: this is what the name promises, a gourmand interpretation of jasmine that leans firmly into its sweetness. The jasmine itself stays clean and narcotic rather than indolic, supported by the almond's rounded warmth.
As it develops, a benzoin undertow adds resinous depth, pulling the composition away from pure confection toward something more ambered and skin-like. The marzipan softens but never disappears entirely, threading through the heart like a persistent sweetness.
This suits those drawn to jasmine sambac's honeyed facets but wary of its animalic turns. It wears close, intimate rather than projecting, more private indulgence than statement scent. The effect is cozy without being cloying, provided you have tolerance for sweetness in your florals.
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.




