Note Vanillee
The opening is soft and almost bready, a warm vanilla that never turns saccharine.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Vanilla80
- Sandalwood75
- Amber70
- Jasmine65
- Musk35
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is soft and almost bready, a warm vanilla that never turns saccharine. Within minutes, jasmine rises through like steam through cream, lending a pale floral transparency that keeps the sweetness from closing in. The rum note appears not as booze but as a dark, molasses-tinged undertow—something slightly fermented and rich that grounds the composition.
As it settles, sandalwood and amber blur into a skin-like base, golden and enveloping without the powder or sharpness that can make gourmands feel dated. The vanilla here is neither synthetic nor aggressively foody; it reads more like the inside of an old wooden box lined with cloth that once held something sweet.
This is for those who want vanilla treated seriously—no cupcake, no candle. It wears close, almost private, with a gentle tenacity that lingers through the day without announcing itself.
