Les Nombres d'Or - Vanille
Clove opens dry and faintly medicinal — a single sharp note that carries the top almost alone, with no fruit or citrus to lighten it.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Leather75
- Soft Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Clove
- Petitgrain
- Ylang-Ylang
- Tonka Bean
- Sandalwood
- Leather
By the editors · 2 min readClove opens dry and faintly medicinal — a single sharp note that carries the top almost alone, with no fruit or citrus to lighten it. The first impression is unusually austere for a vanilla-named composition.
Petitgrain and ylang-ylang shift the middle toward warm yellow-floral with a green citrus edge — the petitgrain bitter and woody, ylang-ylang waxy and tropical. The heart lifts slightly out of the spice without ever fully escaping it.
Tonka, sandalwood, leather, vetiver, amber, and musk fill the long base. Leather and vetiver carry the gravity here, with tonka and amber adding slow sweetness. Despite the name, vanilla reads as supporting rather than starring — the dominant accord is leather warmed by spice.
Scent twins
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