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Ariana Grande · Est. 2022

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.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2022
Perfumerunknown
Statusenriched
Mod Vanilla — Ariana Grande
2022 · Fragrance
van·mus·car·ton
Rating
4.2
1.9k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 8 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.

  • Vanilla
    85
  • Musk
    50
  • Caramel
    50
  • Tonka
    30
  • Jasmine
    30

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.

Filed: Ariana GrandeSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap