Un Bois Vanille
Un Bois Vanille opens sweet and resinous, like dark caramel cooling on sandalwood.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Vanilla90
- Tonka80
- Sandalwood70
- Caramel60
- Musk50
By the editors · 2 min readUn Bois Vanille opens sweet and resinous, like dark caramel cooling on sandalwood. The vanilla here isn't cupcake frosting—it's dense, almost molten, grounded by guaiac's smoky, medicinal edge. Tonka amplifies the warmth without tipping into dessert territory, while a whisper of rose keeps the composition from becoming purely gourmand.
As it settles, the woods absorb the sweetness, creating something closer to aged furniture in a patisserie than a literal sweet scent. The musk adds skin-like intimacy, making the fragrance feel worn rather than applied. It clings close, radiating gentle warmth rather than projecting.
This suits cold evenings and people who want comfort without cuteness. It's enveloping but not cloying, familiar but not safe. A Lutens signature: something that could feel obvious rendered strange through balance and restraint.
