Vanille Noir
Cinnamon and nutmeg open with a warm, piquant spice that is immediately tempered by a soft rose floralcy.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Nutmeg
- Rose
- Lily of the Valley
- Cedar
- Apricot
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon and nutmeg open with a warm, piquant spice that is immediately tempered by a soft rose floralcy. Apricot adds a stone-fruit sweetness while lily of the valley introduces a green, dewy freshness to the heart. The base combines tonka, vanilla, and tobacco for a sweet, hay-like richness alongside leather and vetiver's dry, rugged textures. Patchouli lends an earthy undertone that grounds the sweeter elements. Development is complex, shifting from spicy-floral to a sweet, leathery dry-down over hours. Strong projection and longevity make it a bold choice for fall or winter evenings and special events.
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.
