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Heliotrope opens with a soft almond-powder sheen, immediately sweetened by vanilla and edged with cardamom’s cool spice.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Nutty
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Lavender
- Jasmine
- Almond
By the editors · 2 min readHeliotrope opens with a soft almond-powder sheen, immediately sweetened by vanilla and edged with cardamom’s cool spice. Bergamot flashes quickly, leaving lavender to steer the heart into a clean, slightly metallic floral channel where jasmine adds creamy lift. Almond milk accord now dominates, its lactonic warmth gluing the white florals to the woods below. In the dry-down sandalwood supplies creamy lactones while guaiac wood brings quiet smoke, both filtered through ambergris salt that tames the sugar and adds skin-like musk. Projection stays polite, wafting barely beyond arm’s length for six hours, ideal for office or close-quarter fall days when you want sweet comfort without announcing it.
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.
