Absolu de Vanille
Benzoin opens thick and resinous, dripping molten tolu-balsamic sweetness that immediately blankets the skin.
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.
- Balsamic90
- Sweet80
- Honey70
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Benzoin
- Benzoin
- Honey
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readBenzoin opens thick and resinous, dripping molten tolu-balsamic sweetness that immediately blankets the skin. Honey arrives within minutes, amplifying the sticky texture while opoponax folds in a myrrh-like incense dust that keeps the sugar from cloying. Patchouli threads through the heart with dry cocoa earth, splitting the dense amber river into darker, slightly bitter eddies. Tonka bean and labdanum cement the base, the former adding soft almond coumarin and the latter a leathery ambergris glow that lingers for hours. Projection stays moderate, radiating a warm custard aura perfect for cool evenings or layered under sharper woods.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
