Italica (2021)
Italica opens with a shock of warm almond and saffron, both sweet and savory at once, like the first bite of a buttery amaretto cookie still warm from the oven.
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.
- Sweet70
- Vanilla65
- Woody55
- Almond
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Saffron
- White Musk
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readItalica opens with a shock of warm almond and saffron, both sweet and savory at once, like the first bite of a buttery amaretto cookie still warm from the oven. The saffron keeps the sweetness from becoming cloying, adding a honeyed, almost medicinal sharpness that lifts the whole composition.
As it settles, creamy sandalwood emerges beneath the gourmand top, smoothing out the edges while white musk adds a soft, powdery haze. The almond never fully disappears—it mellows into something closer to tonka or heliotrope, that vanillic warmth that hovers just above the skin.
This is unabashedly dessert-like, built for those who find comfort in sweet, enveloping scents. It wears close and cozy, more intimate dinner than grand statement, with enough restraint in the base to keep it from feeling heavy.
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.
