Amande
Amande opens with a direct, clean almond accord — roasted rather than marzipan-sharp, closer to the kernel than the liqueur.
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.
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Tonka Bean
- Jasmine
- Sandalwood
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAmande opens with a direct, clean almond accord — roasted rather than marzipan-sharp, closer to the kernel than the liqueur. Jasmine enters quickly and sits just underneath the nut, preventing the opening from reading as purely gourmand.
Tonka bean in the heart ties the almond and jasmine together, adding a coumarin-like creaminess. Sandalwood grounds the mid-stage with a quiet milky dryness, and vanilla rounds out the base without oversweetening — the overall sweetness stays moderate and coherent.
The dry-down is a close-to-skin nutty floral with a creamy sandalwood finish. Uncomplicated in structure, but deliberate: every note reinforces the central almond-sweet-soft axis rather than distracting from it.
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.
