Ani
The opening bursts with peppery warmth—pink pepper and ginger create an immediate spice that feels less gourmand than architectural, like the first rush of incense smoke in a stone chamber.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Vanilla90
- Woody70
- Amber60
- Soft Spicy
The note pyramid
- Ginger
- Magnolia
- Pink Pepper
- Peony
- Bergamot
- Plum
- Black Currant
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening bursts with peppery warmth—pink pepper and ginger create an immediate spice that feels less gourmand than architectural, like the first rush of incense smoke in a stone chamber. Bergamot keeps it from tipping into heaviness, though this is clearly not a fresh citrus fragrance. Within minutes, black currant adds a tart-sweet brightness while cardamom intensifies the exotic quality, both familiar and foreign at once.
The drydown reveals Ani's true character: a resinous vanilla anchored by sandalwood and benzoin, the kind of sweet that feels substantial rather than sugary. There's depth from cedar and patchouli, enough woodiness to prevent the vanilla from becoming dessert-like. The musk and ambergris lend a soft, almost pillowy warmth that sits close to skin.
This is vanilla for those who usually avoid vanilla—grounded, spiced, with enough complexity to hold attention beyond the initial sweetness.
Scent twins
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