The Collector - Zafeer Oud Vanille
Coconut opens creamy and sun-baked, its lactonic sweetness immediately glazed by a dark caramel that feels almost burnt rather than candied.
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.
- Coconut90
- Caramel80
- Vanilla60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Coconut
- Caramel
- Tonka Bean
- Ylang-Ylang
- Clove
- Oud
By the editors · 2 min readCoconut opens creamy and sun-baked, its lactonic sweetness immediately glazed by a dark caramel that feels almost burnt rather than candied. Within minutes ylang-ylang pushes forward, adding a custard-yellow floral richness that keeps the gourmand direction from turning syrupy, while tonka bean folds in a subtle hay-like coumarin that softens the sugar. Cove stays quiet, a dry spice hum that braces the heart without announcing itself as clove. The base is a slow merger of vanilla and oud: the vanilla stays smoky-pod rather than dessert, the oud is dry, leathery, and surprisingly polite, with musk giving a skin-warmed aura that keeps the confection from cloying. Projection remains moderate, hovering just outside personal space for six hours before it settles into a coconut-skin musk. Best worn in cool evenings when you want edible warmth without dessert overload.
Scent twins
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