Chic
Vanilla opens at the top in an unusual position, setting an immediate sweet-warm tone rather than building from citrus.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Yellow Floral50
- White Floral50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Melon
- Ylang-Ylang
- Jasmine
- Iris
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla opens at the top in an unusual position, setting an immediate sweet-warm tone rather than building from citrus. The vanilla reads creamy and slightly powdery, prioritising softness from the first spray.
Melon and ylang-ylang shape the heart with a watery-tropical lift. Melon adds aquatic-sweet juiciness that contrasts the vanilla's warmth, while ylang-ylang threads creamy yellow floral richness through the middle. The pairing reads playful and summery.
Jasmine, iris, and musk close with a soft, powdery-floral drydown. The iris cools, jasmine adds creamy weight, musk gathers everything into a clean intimate finish. Overall character: an aquatic-vanilla-floral hybrid with playful summer leanings, suited to warm-weather casual wear and easy daytime occasions. Light projection, simple development, more about charm than complexity.
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.
