Vanilla Birch C.O.Bigelow
Pear opens with a ripe, watery fruitiness — soft and slightly sweet, without the sharpness of citrus.
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.
- White Floral50
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Powdery
The note pyramid
- Pear
- Gardenia
- Heliotrope
- Birch
- Vanilla
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readPear opens with a ripe, watery fruitiness — soft and slightly sweet, without the sharpness of citrus. It's a gentle, unchallenging opening that sets an expectation of easy comfort.
Birch adds a cool, slightly smoky or phenolic note in the base that creates contrast with the sweet pear. Vanilla softens the birch's harder edge, and musk extends the drydown smoothly. The interplay between birch and vanilla creates a quietly unusual pairing — the smokiness of birch reads alongside the sweetness of vanilla in a way that stays interesting without becoming complex. A restrained, accessible composition with a slightly unexpected base.
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.
