Vanille
Franck Boclet's Vanille withholds its namesake note and makes you reach for it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Caramel60
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Lime
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Ginger
- Caramel
- Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readFranck Boclet's Vanille withholds its namesake note and makes you reach for it. Lime and grapefruit open with tart brightness that initially reads as a citrus fragrance — energetic and clean. Cardamom introduces spice early without announcing itself, threading warmth into the top in a way that only becomes apparent in retrospect.
The heart belongs to caramel and ginger: sweet and lightly spiced, approachable rather than cloying. The vanilla the name promises is more implied than present — caramel carries the sweetness while ginger provides counterweight, keeping the composition from folding entirely into confection.
A slim cedar-musk base supplies structure without complication. Lighter and cleaner than its ingredient list suggests, subtler than its name promises. A dessert fragrance for those who don't usually wear dessert fragrances.
Scent twins
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