Vol De Nuit Eau De Toilette
The 2021 reissue of Vol de Nuit reads cooler and greener than the vintage.
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.
- Amber60
- Aromatic50
- Yellow Floral50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Galbanum
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Narcissus
- Amber
By the editors · 2 min readThe 2021 reissue of Vol de Nuit reads cooler and greener than the vintage. Petitgrain and galbanum cut a sharp opening — bitter twigs, bruised stems — and bergamot keeps the entry from feeling severe. There is no warmth at the top, only altitude.
The heart is sparse: jasmine without sweetness and narcissus with its hay-like, animalic edge. Things slow down rather than bloom. The base is where Guerlain reasserts itself — amber and vanilla pulled through patchouli's earth, iris adding a cool powder. The composition reads as oriental in skeleton but mossy-green in temperament.
It suits cool weather, evening light, and people who reach for restraint over plushness.
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.
