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.
- Vanilla85
- Sweet70
- Musky55
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Milk
- Vanilla
- Saffron
- Tonka Bean
By the editors · 2 min readYo! Vanilla Ice opens with a small lavender-bergamot pairing that's gone within ten minutes — a brief herbal-citrus prelude that doesn't really announce what follows. The transition to the heart is the interesting move: warm milk, vanilla and a thread of saffron arrive together, and the lavender briefly reads as the cool side of a milky dessert.
The base is straightforward — tonka and musk extending the vanilla into a soft, plush drydown. There is nothing complicated here, and the saffron is the only note that gives the composition any unexpected texture.
It's a comfort gourmand from a late-90s teen line, more sweet milk than dessert. Suited to colder weather and casual evenings; intimate projection, long-ish wear at low volume.
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.
