Oud Vanille
Oud-Vanille opens with an unexpected softness—raspberry and orange tempered by caramel, creating a fruity sweetness that feels deliberate rather than cloying.
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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Vanilla45
- Smoky30
- Caramel
The note pyramid
- Raspberry
- Orange
- Caramel
- Incense
- Jasmine
- Patchouli
- Violet
By the editors · 2 min readOud-Vanille opens with an unexpected softness—raspberry and orange tempered by caramel, creating a fruity sweetness that feels deliberate rather than cloying. This isn't the harsh, medicinal oud often found in Western interpretations; instead, the opening suggests dessert spices and candied citrus before the composition settles.
The heart brings incense and patchouli into conversation with jasmine and rose, grounding the initial sweetness with resinous depth. Violet adds a powdery dimension that bridges the gourmand opening and the warmer base. The progression feels less like distinct phases and more like a gradual deepening.
Vanilla dominates the drydown, supported by clean musk that prevents the scent from becoming too heavy. The oud itself remains subtle throughout, serving more as an enhancer of the wood and spice elements than as a soloistic note. This is approachable oriental perfumery—familiar and wearable, designed for those who want richness without complexity.
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.
