Topaz
Vanilla sits alone at the heart with no top notes to introduce the composition — the opening is immediate and warm, vanilla-forward without buildup.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Balsamic50
- Woody50
- Tropical50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Sandalwood
- Oakmoss
- Amber
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readVanilla sits alone at the heart with no top notes to introduce the composition — the opening is immediate and warm, vanilla-forward without buildup. Sandalwood adds a creamy, slightly dry wood quality that pairs naturally with the vanilla's sweetness.
Oakmoss introduces a mossy, earthy dimension that deepens the composition and adds textural contrast beneath the vanilla and sandalwood. Amber and musk in the base contribute warmth and skin-closeness. The overall structure is simple: a vanilla-sandalwood-moss accord with amber support. Quiet and linear, but the oakmoss prevents it from reading as purely sweet — there is a grounding earthiness throughout.
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.
