Les Naturelles: Fleur de Vanille
Ylang-ylang opens this over a creamy vanilla base, the floral note carrying its characteristic rubbery-banana richness before heliotrope softens the edges with a powdery, almond-like quality.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Almond50
- Warm Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Ylang-Ylang
- Vanilla
- Heliotrope
- Rose
- Chocolate
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readYlang-ylang opens this over a creamy vanilla base, the floral note carrying its characteristic rubbery-banana richness before heliotrope softens the edges with a powdery, almond-like quality. Rose adds a quiet backdrop rather than asserting itself.
As it settles, chocolate emerges from the base, blending with musk to anchor the sweetness. The result is less a floral than a gourmand with floral framing — vanilla-chocolate carrying most of the weight.
Overall this reads warm and comforting, the ylang preventing it from becoming purely edible. It suits cooler evenings and casual wear, sitting close to skin rather than projecting.
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.
