Vanilla Noir
One of Bath & Body Works' more ambitious compositions, Vanilla Noir opens with brooding berry — black currant and plum with bergamot's citrus brightness cutting the darkness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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 Spicy100
- Cinnamon50
- White Floral50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Black Currant
- Bergamot
- Gardenia
- Tuberose
- Orchid
- Carnation
By the editors · 2 min readOne of Bath & Body Works' more ambitious compositions, Vanilla Noir opens with brooding berry — black currant and plum with bergamot's citrus brightness cutting the darkness. The heart builds to a dense white floral: gardenia and tuberose are joined by orchid and carnation, heavy and nightblooming. The base settles into toffee-soaked vanilla over Cashmeran's velvety woodiness — a warmth that stays rather than fades.
This defies the brand's usual lightness. It wears as a cold-weather evening choice, an oriental floral with enough structure to hold up across hours. Dense without being heavy; sweet without being thin.
Scent twins
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