Dirty Vanilla
Cedar opens dry and splinter-sharp, immediately throwing the composition toward stripped wood rather than creamy sandalwood.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Vanilla
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readCedar opens dry and splinter-sharp, immediately throwing the composition toward stripped wood rather than creamy sandalwood. The heart folds vanilla into this cedar frame, turning the wood accord softer, slightly sweet, and faintly smoky from the styrax that rides beneath. Patchouli and vetiver arrive early in the base, pushing an earthy, slightly bitter greenness that keeps the vanilla from dessert territory and maintains the 'dirty' edge promised in the name. As skin heat builds, the vanilla warms while sandalwood adds a lactonic cream that smooths the earlier wood rasp without erasing it. Projection stays close, creating a skin-level wood-vanilla haze that reads more unisex and outdoors than gourmand.
Scent twins
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