Angel Sunessence Ocean D'Argent 2011
A flanker stripped down almost to a single accord: patchouli front and center, with vanilla pooling underneath as the only softening element.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 5 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.
- Patchouli85
- Vanilla50
- Sweet45
- Earthy
The note pyramid
- Patchouli
- Vanilla
- Patchouli
By the editors · 2 min readA flanker stripped down almost to a single accord: patchouli front and center, with vanilla pooling underneath as the only softening element. There is no detailed pyramid to track — the composition functions as a mood rather than a journey.
The patchouli is the dark, earthy, slightly chocolatey kind, with a wine-like depth. Vanilla wraps around it sweet and creamy, blunting the dirt without erasing it.
The overall character is the signature gourmand-patchouli pairing the brand built its name on, here in a lighter, more transparent treatment than the original. It stays linear from first spray to drydown — patchouli over vanilla, with no surprises — making it functional as a comfort scent more than a complex performance. Skin-warm and intimate.
Scent twins
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