Vanille Tonka
Black pepper and lemon open with a dry, slightly medicinal edge — not sweet, not fruity.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Cinnamon70
- Balsamic60
- Soft Spicy50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Pepper
- Lemon
- Mandarin
- Anise
- Cinnamon
- Frankincense
- Orange Blossom
By the editors · 2 min readBlack pepper and lemon open with a dry, slightly medicinal edge — not sweet, not fruity. The pepper is assertive and prickly; the lemon provides definition rather than brightness. Cinnamon follows at the heart alongside frankincense, a pairing that shifts the composition toward something resinous and slightly smoky.
Frankincense gives the middle and base a cool, church-air quality — dry incense rather than warm amber. The name promises vanilla and tonka, but the listed notes don't deliver either directly; what remains is spicy and resinous, with more austerity than comfort. A dry, incense-forward composition with a spiced citrus opening and limited sweetness throughout.
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.
