Vanilla Love
Apple and black pepper open with a mild fruity brightness, though the myrrh is detectable from the start, lending a balsamic undercurrent that prevents the opening from feeling purely light.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Patchouli55
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Black Pepper
- Myrrh
- Tonka Bean
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readApple and black pepper open with a mild fruity brightness, though the myrrh is detectable from the start, lending a balsamic undercurrent that prevents the opening from feeling purely light. The pepper fades quickly.
Vanilla, tonka bean, and patchouli form the heart's core — a familiar warm-sweet combination softened by the tonka's slightly almond-like roundness. Saffron sits in the base and adds a subtle spiced edge without sharpening the overall sweetness.
The amber base anchors the whole composition in familiar oriental territory. This is soft and approachable — unchallenging in the best sense — with a creamy, patchouli-warmed dry-down that leans close to skin as it settles.
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.
