Cherry Prive
Almond opens with a toasted, slightly bitter nuttiness that immediately suggests cherry-pie filling because the kernel’s benzaldehyde facet reads as marzipan plus dark fruit skin.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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
- Rose50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond opens with a toasted, slightly bitter nuttiness that immediately suggests cherry-pie filling because the kernel’s benzaldehyde facet reads as marzipan plus dark fruit skin. The heart stays empty, so the almond remains solo for nearly an hour, growing creamier as sandalwood creeps up early, adding a dry, milky wood that softens the nut’s edges. Tonka bean arrives next, folding coumarin sweetness into the wood and creating a soft tobacco-almond glaze that feels like powdered sugar on roasted cherries. Amber spreads quietly underneath, giving a low, resinous glow that anchors the confection without overt vanilla. Projection hovers at arm’s-length for four hours then collapses into a skin-scent of blond wood and pale caramel. Cool fall days and unhurried coffee-shop hours suit its restrained gourmand whisper.
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.
