No.9 Vanilla Pod
No.9 Vanilla Pod has no top notes — it opens directly into black pepper, jasmine, saffron, violet, and rose.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Iris50
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Violet
- Rose
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readNo.9 Vanilla Pod has no top notes — it opens directly into black pepper, jasmine, saffron, violet, and rose. The pepper and saffron create an immediate dry, spiced richness against the warm floral backdrop. This is not a bright opening; it settles into its register immediately.
The base is extensive: sandalwood, leather, vetiver, labdanum, amber, vanilla, cedar, and patchouli. This is a full oriental construction with labdanum and amber providing rich, warm resin; leather and vetiver adding dry, smoky depth; and vanilla threading warmth through the entire base.
The vanilla is ultimately a supporting note in a deeply complex oriental — not a sweet vanilla fragrance but a rich, spiced, leathery composition where vanilla provides background warmth.
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.
