TOWA
Heliotrope opens with almond-like powder that softens the citric snap of lemon and bergamot, while cardamom injects a cool green spice.
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.
- Smoky60
- Warm Spicy50
- Rose50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Heliotrope
- Lemon
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Tonka Bean
- Brown Sugar
- Raspberry
By the editors · 2 min readHeliotrope opens with almond-like powder that softens the citric snap of lemon and bergamot, while cardamom injects a cool green spice. The heart swells with tonka’s warm hay facet, brown sugar’s molten crunch, and rum’s boozy glow, all wrapped around a jammy raspberry that keeps the rose from turning syrupy. Incense smoke begins to curl early, drying the sugar and pulling the composition away from gourmand territory; cedar adds splintered wood texture, styrax supplies a leathery balsamic underside. On skin the brown sugar recedes within two hours, leaving a veil of sweet incense-touched wood that projects at arm’s length for most of the day. Cool autumn evenings, smart-casual dinners, and outdoor concerts suit its smoky sugar-wood character best, though the restrained sillage keeps it office-appropriate in cooler weather.
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.
