Black Vanilla Man
Rum splashes open first, its molasses bite quickly lacquered by rose’s jammy petals and neroli’s honeyed sparkle.
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.
- Rose50
- Ozonic50
- Tobacco50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Rum
- Damask Rose
- Tobacco
- Tonka Bean
- Labdanum
By the editors · 2 min readRum splashes open first, its molasses bite quickly lacquered by rose’s jammy petals and neroli’s honeyed sparkle. Tobacco leaf sweeps in, drying the accord and folding the florals into a warm, slightly bitter plug that smells like cured leaves stacked in a Caribbean warehouse. Vanilla, tonka and labdanum fuse into a chewy, resinous base that keeps the tobacco softly sweet rather than smoky, stretching a boozy rose ribbon across skin for hours. Projection stays within arm’s reach; the accord feels best after dusk when cool air sharpens the rum glow.
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.
