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Laura Mercier · Est. 2013

Eau Gourmande Ambre Vanille

Eau Gourmande Ambre Vanille opens on an unusual trio: orchid contributes its slightly sweet, green-floral quality; heliotrope leans powdery and cherry-almond in a way that blurs the line between floral and gourmand; tangerine provides the brightness that lifts both.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2013
Perfumerunknown
Statusenriched
2013 · Fragrance
van·san·ton·ora
Rating
4.1
0.5k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
basehearttopcitrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 10 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
    50
  • Sandalwood
    45
  • Tonka
    30
  • Orange
    30
  • Musk
    25

By the editors · 2 min readEau Gourmande Ambre Vanille opens on an unusual trio: orchid contributes its slightly sweet, green-floral quality; heliotrope leans powdery and cherry-almond in a way that blurs the line between floral and gourmand; tangerine provides the brightness that lifts both. The heart simplifies immediately — almond and coconut make the gourmand intent explicit, sweet and tropical-creamy in combination.

Sandalwood in the base provides the warmth the name promises, without the amber heaviness the title might suggest. The result is a light, skin-close gourmand that wears closer to a lotion-meets-perfume register than a structured oriental. A fitting companion to the Eau Gourmande line: accessible, sweet, effortlessly wearable.

Filed: Laura MercierSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap