Chestnut Cream & French Vanilla
Vanilla opens dense and opaque, a roasted pod rather than bakery extract.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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
- Balsamic50
- Nutty50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Coffee
- Tonka Bean
- Chocolate
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla opens dense and opaque, a roasted pod rather than bakery extract. Coffee moves in immediately, its bitter oils stripping some of the vanilla’s sugar and setting up a mocha spine that keeps the scent from turning frosting-sweet. Tonka bean lands next, adding a soft tobacco facet that stretches the coffee into a more aromatic register while quietly folding in hay-like coumarin. Chocolate arrives late, not as candy but as dry cocoa powder that powders the tonka and doubles the bitter impression, so the vanilla now reads as chestnutbur rather than ice-cream. The second vanilla in the base re-loosens the cocoa, letting the accord hover between latte and liqueur for hours. Projection stays within arm’s length; the comfort profile fits cool autumn nights, fireplace-side lounging, or a slow café brunch.
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.
