Vanille Noire du Mexique
Vanille Noire du Mexique foregrounds raw material over architecture.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Vanilla85
- Woody50
- Patchouli50
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Rose
- Vanilla
- Opoponax
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readVanille Noire du Mexique foregrounds raw material over architecture. Bergamot serves as little more than an entry point, burning off quickly to reveal a floral heart — jasmine and rose — that exists to contextualize the base rather than occupy it. The drydown is the destination: Mexican Bourbon vanilla laid over opoponax resin and patchouli produces a sweetness that reads earthy and slightly medicinal rather than culinary.
Iris adds a brief orris-root creaminess before patchouli asserts itself more fully. The effect is more plantation than patisserie — a vanilla fragrance for people who want the pod, not the cream.
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.
