Sissa
Tonka bean dominates from the first spray, releasing its characteristic marzipan-like sweetness laced with faint bitter-almond edges that prevent cloying overload.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Labdanum
- Musk
- Tonka Bean
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readTonka bean dominates from the first spray, releasing its characteristic marzipan-like sweetness laced with faint bitter-almond edges that prevent cloying overload. The heart stays linear, letting the coumarin-rich tonka slowly surrender to Madagascar vanilla that thickens the accord with a creamy, almost frosting density while preserving a powdery tobacco undertone. Labdanum arrives late, adding a leathery amber resin that cuts the sugar and anchors the composition to skin, extending wear through a quiet musk veil that feels like warm cashmere rather than loud projection. Overall character is a dry, refined gouramand that favors close-wearing elegance over dessert-bomb excess, projecting softly for the first three hours before collapsing into a skin-scented amber-musk cocoon that lingers through an office day. Best suited to cool fall weekdays when you want edible comfort without announcing it across the room.
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.
