Tonkatonic
Almond and fig open with a creamy, slightly green nuttiness that feels like bruised fig skin dusted with marzipan.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Fig
- Jasmine
- Benzoin
- Orange Blossom
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond and fig open with a creamy, slightly green nuttiness that feels like bruised fig skin dusted with marzipan. Jasmine soon blooms, its indolic petals sweetened by benzoin’s honeyed resin while orange blossom adds a clean, soap-lift that keeps the heart from turning heavy. As the scent settles, tonka bean’s soft coumarin facet merges with sandalwood’s dry cream, and ambrette seed contributes a discreet vegetal musk that lingers close to fabric. The overall arc stays smooth and rounded, never loud: almond recedes but leaves a toasted edge that rides quietly under the blond woods. Projection remains intimate, perfect for office days when you want a skinskin whisper of something edible and comforting rather than statement-making. Lasts about six hours, fadinging to a skin-scent nut milk with a faint tobacco tonality.
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.
