Vanilla Diorama
Vanilla Diorama opens with pink pepper and citrus — the pepper adding a slightly sharp, slightly sweet facet to orange and lemon, making the opening more complex than a straightforward fresh-citrus start.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Vanilla55
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pink Pepper
- Orange
- Lemon
- Rum
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla Diorama opens with pink pepper and citrus — the pepper adding a slightly sharp, slightly sweet facet to orange and lemon, making the opening more complex than a straightforward fresh-citrus start. The opening is lively without being aggressive.
Rum and cardamom in the heart are an effective pairing: rum's warm, sweet-woody character and cardamom's spiced green warmth give the composition a distinctly aromatic quality. Cocoa moves through this phase too, adding depth to the spiced-rum accord without tipping it into heavy gourmand territory.
Sandalwood and patchouli in the base resolve the composition into warm, slightly earthy territory — the patchouli dry rather than sweet, giving the drydown a deliberate contrast to the more confectionary middle phase. A Privée flanker with genuine character.
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.
