Aoud Vanille
Aoud Vanille opens with a spice triumvirate — black pepper, saffron, and cardamom arriving with authority.
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.
- Woody75
- Vanilla65
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Saffron
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Mysore Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Madagascar Vanilla
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.
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.
