XO Brandy
Almond opens dry and slightly bitter, setting a restrained gourmand tone rather than marzipan sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Heliotrope
- Virginia Cedar
- Coffee
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond opens dry and slightly bitter, setting a restrained gourmand tone rather than marzipan sweetness. Heliotrope enters early, adding powdery violet that softens the nut edge while Virginia cedar supplies clean pencil-shave wood to keep the heart transparent. Coffee never roasts; instead it drifts as a roasted-grain nuance that links the cedar’s dryness back to the almond skin, preventing any confectionary slide. As the base settles, sandalwood steers the composition toward a creamy, lactonic wood that blurs the earlier lines between nut, flower and faint mocha. Projection stays polite, hovering just outside personal space for five hours before collapsing to a skin-whisper of milky wood. Office-safe and spring-weight, it behaves like a woody floral with a restrained edible character rather than the promised liquor.
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.
