Mod Vanilla
Mod Vanilla doesn't pretend to be more than it is: a dessert fragrance aimed squarely at its audience and delivered without irony.
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.
- Vanilla85
- Lactonic50
- Iris50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Musk
- Praline
- Vanilla
- Jasmine
- Plum
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readMod Vanilla doesn't pretend to be more than it is: a dessert fragrance aimed squarely at its audience and delivered without irony. The plum opens sweet-tart, closer to a candy interpretation than fresh fruit, with a synthetic musk weaving in almost immediately. Praline forms the core of the heart — warm, buttery, the kind of confectionery accord that behaves more like caramelized sugar than the nut itself.
Vanilla anchors the base and the story doesn't deviate much from there. What keeps Mod Vanilla from becoming entirely linear is a faint floralcy from jasmine and freesia that drifts in and out, preventing the sweetness from completely collapsing on itself. Best worn by someone who genuinely loves gourmand fragrances and isn't looking to make an argument for complexity — this does one thing and does it with confidence.
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.
