Aomassaï
Caramel opens thick and burnt, immediately folding in roasted coffee to create a bitter-sweet espresso-bean accord that clings to the skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Caramel90
- Balsamic60
- Woody50
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Caramel
- Coffee
- Bitter Orange
- Frankincense
- Tolu Balsam
By the editors · 2 min readCaramel opens thick and burnt, immediately folding in roasted coffee to create a bitter-sweet espresso-bean accord that clings to the skin. Bitter orange arrives next, its citrus oils cutting the sugar crust and letting frankincense smoke rise through the gap, while tolu balsam supplies a dark, resinous honey that keeps the composition chewy rather than crisp. Over an hour the orange sharpness softens, letting the incense-caramel re-melt into a slow-burning layer that smells like hardwood embers glazed with molasses. Projection stays within arm’s length, perfect for cool autumn evenings when you want a scent that reads like a steaming cup of black coffee laced with caramel syrup rather than a dessert.
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.
