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Vanhera

Vanilla and bergamot lead from the start — bergamot providing enough lift to keep the opening from cloying, while pink pepper and cardamom add a gentle bite that prevents the sweetness from turning saccharine.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2017
Perfumerluca maffei
Statusenriched
Vanhera — Laboratorio Olfattivo
2017 · Fragrance
van·amb·san·cin
Rating
4.0
0.5k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 11 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.

  • Vanilla
    90
  • Amber
    60
  • Sandalwood
    50
  • Cinnamon
    50
  • Bergamot
    40

By the editors · 2 min readVanilla and bergamot lead from the start — bergamot providing enough lift to keep the opening from cloying, while pink pepper and cardamom add a gentle bite that prevents the sweetness from turning saccharine. The heart settles into cinnamon-spiced sandalwood, a warm and slightly dry texture that gives the fragrance the backbone it needs.

By the dry-down, vanhera has arrived at its destination: a resinous, amber-inflected vanilla that sits comfortably against the skin without projecting aggressively. This is a well-constructed gourmand-oriental — warm, wearable, and more interesting than the vanilla-forward first impression might suggest. Laboratorio Olfattivo's niche positioning shows in the spice calibration, which feels considered rather than commercial.

Filed: Laboratorio OlfattivoSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap