Vanille
Mona Di Orio's Vanille is not a gourmand — it's what vanilla is before it gets sweet.
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.
- Vanilla75
- Sandalwood60
- Tonka55
- Leather55
- Amber50
By the editors · 2 min readMona Di Orio's Vanille is not a gourmand — it's what vanilla is before it gets sweet. Petitgrain opens with austere bitter-citrus, rum adding a warm fermented depth, clove a sharp medicinal spice that frames the whole opening. The heart strips away any expectation of softness: sandalwood, guaiac wood, and vetiver form a dry, smoky, almost stern woody accord, ylang-ylang arriving as the one creamy counterpoint. Madagascar vanilla in the base is raw and resinous rather than confected, alongside leather and tonka. A fragrance for people who know what they want and want it complicated — it uses vanilla's name and then refuses to deliver what that name promises.
