Spiritueuse Double Vanille
Spiritueuse Double Vanille opens with resinous smoke—frankincense and incense swirl around bergamot and pink pepper, creating an ecclesiastical warmth rather than the expected pastry sweetness.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Rum70
- Soft Spicy50
- Powdery50
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Pink Pepper
- Bergamot
- Bulgarian Rose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readSpiritueuse Double Vanille opens with resinous smoke—frankincense and incense swirl around bergamot and pink pepper, creating an ecclesiastical warmth rather than the expected pastry sweetness. The vanilla here arrives veiled in benzoin and rum, darker and more contemplative than most treatments of the note. The boozy aspect never turns sticky; it adds depth, like aged wood in a monastery library.
As it settles, white florals—jasmine and ylang-ylang—emerge through the haze, softening the incense without sweetening it overmuch. The rose reads as petal rather than essence, a subtle counterpoint to the resinous base. This is vanilla for those who find most vanilla fragrances cloying: grown-up, slightly austere, more interested in smoke and spirit than cream.
Best suited to cooler weather and contemplative moods. It wears close but persistent, a private luxury rather than a public statement.
Scent twins
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