Van Py Rhum
Van Py Rhum is an extrait de parfum built around a single obsessive question: what is vanilla in its fullest, most complex expression?
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 16 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.
- Vanilla92
- Sweet60
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Tonka Bean
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Rum
- Vanilla
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
- White Flowers
By the editors · 2 min readVan Py Rhum is an extrait de parfum built around a single obsessive question: what is vanilla in its fullest, most complex expression? Lorenzo Pazzaglia answers with multiple vanilla strains — Bourbon, Madagascan, Tahitian, Island — alongside tonka bean and rum, a layering that reveals vanilla's range from bright aldehydic florals through rich tropical creaminess to deep resinous warmth. The rum appears twice: an opening spirit that sharpens the vanilla with alcoholic lift, and a deeper aged rum in the base that adds woody complexity. White flowers and caramel in the heart provide contrast; patchouli and oud in the base root it in darkness. An exceptionally focused niche work.
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.
