Vanille 44
Vanilla dominates, but it’s a dry, smoke-laced wood rather than confection.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 7 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.
- Vanilla90
- Woody70
- Smoky60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Guaiac Wood
- Vanilla
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla dominates, but it’s a dry, smoke-laced wood rather than confection. Guaiac wood’s tarry pencil-shaving edge strips the vanilla of creaminess, letting the accord read as toasted barrel staves dusted with raw sugar. Bergamot and mandarin arrive late, lifting the base with a thin citrus ribbon that keeps the structure from collapsing into syrup. Over hours the wood softens, revealing a skin-close ember of sweet balsam that projects no farther than a wrist’s radius. Cool evenings sharpen its contours; heat would blur the citrus and amplify the vanillic cloud.
Scent twins
In this family
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.
