Vanille Santal
Caramel opens golden and buttery, the burnt-sugar kind rather than syrupy candy, setting an immediate gourmand register.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Caramel
- Sandalwood
- White Musk
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readCaramel opens golden and buttery, the burnt-sugar kind rather than syrupy candy, setting an immediate gourmand register. The first impression is warm, edible, and instantly recognizable.
Sandalwood in the heart adds a creamy, slightly milky woodiness that smooths the caramel into something less sugary, more like vanilla custard. The transition is short; the composition hands off quickly to its base.
Madagascar vanilla and white musk dominate the drydown, the vanilla rich and dark, the musk clean and skin-soft. The result is a plush, lactonic vanilla-caramel hovering close to the skin, with a faint woody underpinning. Linear, comforting, and built for cool weather and casual cozy wear.
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.
