Sissa
Toasted sesame and ambrette seed open Sissa with a warmth that reads as culinary but not edible, coumarin giving the opening its softly sweet, hay-like quality. Milk accord and roasted tonka bean in the heart are dense and enveloping, jasmine sambac threading a floral note through the richness. Cistus labdanum in the base is the anchor, resinous and earthy beneath the vanilla and musk.
Why We Carry This
Sissa is built around a toasted sesame and labdanum combination that is genuinely unusual in the gourmand category. It smells nothing like the caramel-vanilla entries that crowd this space, and that difference is the entire point.
Scent Profile
Top notes: Bergamot, Saffron, Cardamom, Pink Pepper
Heart notes: Rose, Incense, Orris, Jasmine
Base notes: Sandalwood, Oud, Amber, Musk, Labdanum
Character
Accords: Warm Spicy, Smoky, Oud, Floral, Amber, Woody
Perfumer: Christelle Laprade
Launched: 2023