Fatal de Vanille
Olibanum and saffron open with a resinous, slightly metallic glow that quickly sweetens as plum and coffee land in the heart, turning the accord into a dark, jammy tobacco-vanilla swirl.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Patchouli60
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Olibanum
- Saffron
- Lime
- Orange
- Plum
- Narcissus
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readOlibanum and saffron open with a resinous, slightly metallic glow that quickly sweetens as plum and coffee land in the heart, turning the accord into a dark, jammy tobacco-vanilla swirl. Narcissus and rose lend a muted floral lift, preventing the coffee-plum tandem from becoming too syrupy while patchouli and suede rough up the edges with an earthy, leathery grit. Over hours the composition loosens: oakmoss adds a cool forest humus that tames the vanilla’s sugar, and the tobacco leaf dries to a crisp, hay-like crackle that stays closer to skin than the opening resin blast. Projection drops to a polite radius after ninety minutes, leaving a softly smoky, moss-laced vanilla skin trail that feels most at home in cool autumn evenings or layered under leather outerwear.
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.
