Couleur Vanille
Aliénor Massenet's approach to the house's founding obsession — vanilla — routes it through an unusual marine structure.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Vanilla70
- Marine60
- Salty55
The note pyramid
- Freesia
- Sea Salt
- Bergamot
- Cashmere Wood
- Immortelle
- Vanilla Orchid
By the editors · 2 min readAliénor Massenet's approach to the house's founding obsession — vanilla — routes it through an unusual marine structure. Sea salt and freesia open with bergamot in a pairing that suggests a coastal morning rather than a bakery. The heart departs from the aquatic opening: immortelle adds a dry, haylike sweetness, and cashmere wood rounds the transition toward a proper warm base. Madagascar vanilla and benzoin at the base are rich without being cloying, and their weight offsets the saltwater beginning in a way that creates genuine movement across the wearing. For those who find conventional vanilla perfumery too static or interior, this gives the accord some air.
Scent twins
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