Vanille Citrus
Black currant lands first, tart and jammy, pulling the citrus into a sweet-sour swirl that feels like candied orange peel dusted with sugar.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Fruity60
- Sweet50
- Vanilla50
- Chocolate
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Vanilla
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readBlack currant lands first, tart and jammy, pulling the citrus into a sweet-sour swirl that feels like candied orange peel dusted with sugar. Lemon adds a brief sparkle, then retreats as the vanilla heart arrives early, thick and creamy, folding the darker berry into a soft milk-caramel accord that sits close to skin. No florals, woods, or spices interrupt; the composition stays linear, simply trading brightness for custard as the minutes pass. By dry-down it is a pale vanilla pod with a faint purple-fruit stain, projecting no farther than forearm distance. Office-safe, summer through early fall, best when heat can lift the citrus and humidity can blur the edges into skin.
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.




