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 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.
- Vanilla75
- Woody60
- Sweet55
- Leather
The note pyramid
- Petitgrain
- Rum
- Clove
- Sandalwood
- Guaiac Wood
- Vetiver
- Ylang-Ylang
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.
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.
