Vanagloria
Vanagloria opens with an unexpected pairing: pineapple's tropical sweetness alongside saffron's warm-medicinal depth.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Smoky70
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Pineapple
- Saffron
- Tonka Bean
- Incense
- Frankincense
- Olibanum
By the editors · 2 min readVanagloria opens with an unexpected pairing: pineapple's tropical sweetness alongside saffron's warm-medicinal depth. The combination is vivid and immediate — fruit and spice creating a bright, complex entry point rather than a simple sweet opener.
The heart is the composition's serious statement: tonka bean's warm sweetness alongside an incense triple (incense, frankincense, olibanum — closely related but each contributing different facets of the resinous-smoke character). Together they create a rich, smoky-warm middle chapter that transitions the tropical opening into something more devotional.
Musk alone in the base provides a clean, transparent close that allows the incense-tonka heart to fade gradually into the skin. The compositional arc — tropical brightness to resinous incense to skin-close musk — is unusual and genuinely interesting. An Italian niche house demonstrating real compositional intent.
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.
