Cartomancy
Almond opens with a bitter-sweet marzipan edge that bergamot lifts into a cool, slightly metallic brightness.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Nutty80
- Powdery60
- Floral50
- Fruity
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Bergamot
- Iris
- Rose
- Tonka Bean
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond opens with a bitter-sweet marzipan edge that bergamot lifts into a cool, slightly metallic brightness. The heart folds iris’s chilled carrot-powder sheen beneath a soft, tea-steeped rose, creating a powdery floral haze that mutes the nutty top. Tonka bean’s warm hay-vanilla facet seeps up early, blurring the leather’s rawhide snap and letting patchouli’s cocoa-earth act as a dry, cocoa-brown scaffold rather than a statement. On skin the almond never fully departs; it recedes into a suede-like skin accord where leather stays supple, never smoky, and iris dusts the background with mineral violet. Projection sits at arm’s-length for four hours before collapsing to a close, velvety veil. Cool fall days, book-lined rooms, and quiet cafés suit its muted, tarot-card introspection.
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.