Eau d'Orient
Eau d'Orient opens with a warm, almost honeyed vanilla that avoids the sharp synthetic edge common in mass-market offerings.
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.
- Vanilla75
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Smoky
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readEau d'Orient opens with a warm, almost honeyed vanilla that avoids the sharp synthetic edge common in mass-market offerings. This is vanilla as gentle amber—soft, rounded, with a faint suggestion of something resinous or balsamic beneath. Within minutes it settles into a skin-close haze, more mood than statement, the kind of scent that hovers just at the edge of perception.
The development is linear but pleasant, maintaining that creamy warmth without veering into gourmand territory. There's a subtle powderiness that emerges in the dry-down, reminiscent of sandalwood or iris, though whether this comes from the vanilla itself or supporting musks is unclear. The overall effect is cocooning and uncomplicated.
This suits someone looking for an easy, comforting fragrance—something for quiet evenings or days when you want presence without projection. It's forgiving, accessible, and likely to please those who find most vanillas either too sweet or too austere.
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.
