Aoud Vanille
Aoud Vanille opens with a spice triumvirate — black pepper, saffron, and cardamom arriving with authority.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Sandalwood75
- Vanilla65
- Cardamom50
- Black Pepper50
- Amber40
By the editors · 2 min readAoud Vanille opens with a spice triumvirate — black pepper, saffron, and cardamom arriving with authority. Saffron's warm-honeyed quality reads elegantly against cardamom's green-spice character; black pepper provides an underlying sharpness that prevents the opening from becoming too soft. The combination has a Middle Eastern register that fits the Mancera house aesthetic.
The base is built around two sandalwoods — Mysore alongside a broader accord, the Mysore variety providing its characteristically milky-smooth quality — plus guaiac wood's smokier texture. Madagascar vanilla rounds the base into something warm and enveloping.
With no heart notes to bridge them, the spiced opening and woody-vanilla base follow each other directly, giving the fragrance a purposeful, linear character. A clean expression of the oriental sandalwood genre.
