Vanille Marine
Vanille Marine starts with a cold-water citrus burst — black currant, orange, lemon — then opens onto a green-mint accord that smells almost exactly like the salt-air gap between waves.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 4 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.
- Marine80
- Salty60
- Vanilla45
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Lemon
- Mint
- Neroli
- Vanilla
- Lime
By the editors · 2 min readVanille Marine starts with a cold-water citrus burst — black currant, orange, lemon — then opens onto a green-mint accord that smells almost exactly like the salt-air gap between waves. Lily of the valley and neroli soften that brightness without sweetening it, and the vanilla, when it arrives, is unusually transparent: less custard, more sun on white skin.
The base is restrained. Petitgrain holds the citrus thread late, benzoin gives a thin balsamic warmth, and musk closes everything into a soft, summer-skin trail. It works best in heat — the marine effect collapses in cold air.
Scent twins
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