Passion Essence
Bitter almond and bright lemon spark a nutty-citrus top that quickly turns creamy when coffee joins.
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.
- Nutty70
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tuberose
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Coffee
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBitter almond and bright lemon spark a nutty-citrus top that quickly turns creamy when coffee joins. Tuberose dominates the heart, pushing jasmine and orange blossom into a buttery white floral screen that iris powders and rose barely tints. The base thickens with ambered patchouli and vanilla, while cinnamon and tonka inject a warm spice that keeps the praline sweetness from cloying, musk smoothing edges. Over six hours it drifts from roasted white flowers to a dusty, ambery skin with skin-close sillage. Cool autumn nights or indoor dining let the almond-coffee echo linger.
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.
