Vanille Flamboyante de Bourbon
Plum opens syrupy and dark, its jammy density immediately lacquered by honey that thickens the texture and pulls the fruit toward liqueur territory.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Honey80
- Soft Spicy50
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Honey
- Rose
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readPlum opens syrupy and dark, its jammy density immediately lacquered by honey that thickens the texture and pulls the fruit toward liqueur territory. Rose slips in almost candied, its petals steeped in the same sticky syrup, while ylang-ylang adds a banana-yellow floral creaminess that keeps the heart from collapsing into pure sugar. Sandalwood arrives early, its milk-fed wood already tempering sweetness with a buttery grind, then vetiver threads cool, rooty smoke through the base, lifting the dessert-like weight so the scent never cloys. skin musk sheathes the dry-down in a clean, faintly salty film that lets the remaining plum-rose jam hover an inch from the body rather than project across the room. Expect six hours of soft-edged wear that feels most at home on cool spring evenings or layered under a wool scarf in fall.
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.
