Heroin
Almond arrives immediately — clean, slightly bitter, with a marzipan edge rather than a sugared one.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Leather60
- Mossy60
- Patchouli60
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Ylang-Ylang
- Cedar
- Oakmoss
- Leather
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond arrives immediately — clean, slightly bitter, with a marzipan edge rather than a sugared one. Ylang-ylang adds a waxy, slightly indolic floral note that keeps it from reading as purely gourmand.
Oakmoss in the base introduces a cool, earthy density, grounding the sweetness. Leather emerges as a dry, slightly smoky presence, while vanilla softens the overall structure without fully sweetening it. Patchouli ties the base together with a dark, resinous undertow.
The result is a complex accord — part confectionery, part chypre — that stays ambiguous throughout. It leans unisex, works better in cooler months, and rewards close attention rather than projecting widely.
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.
