Tocade
Tocade opens with a cool, almost watery freesia tempered by bergamot—a clean brightness that feels more restrained than celebratory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Aromatic50
- Sweet50
- Fresh Spicy50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Magnolia
- Freesia
- Freesia
- Bergamot
- Bergamot
- Magnolia
By the editors · 2 min readTocade opens with a cool, almost watery freesia tempered by bergamot—a clean brightness that feels more restrained than celebratory. The effect is transparent rather than loud, setting the stage for what becomes a quietly insistent white floral composition. As it settles, magnolia and rose emerge with a powdered softness, their natural greenness muted by iris into something closer to cosmetic elegance than garden realism.
The base pulls everything into a gauzy amber-vanilla accord, grounded just enough by cedar and patchouli to keep it from drifting into pure sweetness. This is where Tocade reveals its character: polite but persistent, like a well-bred guest who stays longer than expected. The musk lingers with a skin-like warmth that feels intimate without being overtly sensual.
Tocade suits someone who appreciates mid-nineties restraint—the era's preference for softness over projection, for suggestion over declaration. It wears close, almost private, a scent more likely to be noticed in an elevator than across a room.
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.
