Guimauve
The opening carries a peculiar sweetness—almond and mint together create something between marzipan and herbal clarity, softened by lavender's rounded edges.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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
- Aromatic50
- White Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Rosemary
- Almond
- Orange
- Bergamot
- Petitgrain
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening carries a peculiar sweetness—almond and mint together create something between marzipan and herbal clarity, softened by lavender's rounded edges. Orange and bergamot keep it from tilting too gourmand, while rosemary adds an aromatic sharpness that prevents the composition from settling into pure confection.
As it develops, neroli and petitgrain introduce a bitter-green citrus quality that contrasts with the almond's persistence, while jasmine and black pepper provide texture without dominating. The heart feels deliberately conflicted, as if the perfume can't decide whether it wants to be a cologne or a comfort scent.
The base resolves this tension by leaning into warmth—tonka and vanilla embrace the almond from the opening, creating a soft, skin-close sweetness. Sandalwood and cedar provide just enough structure to keep it wearable rather than edible. It's a fragrance for those who want something cozy without excess, approachable without being simple.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
