Vanori
Sandalwood arrives first, creamy and blond, polished by vanilla that adds a custard-like sweetness rather than a syrupy one.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Woody70
- Lactonic60
- Vanilla60
- Yellow Floral
The note pyramid
- Sandalwood
- Bourbon Vanilla
- Jasmine
- Benzoin
- Pink Pepper
- Honey
- Frangipani
By the editors · 2 min readSandalwood arrives first, creamy and blond, polished by vanilla that adds a custard-like sweetness rather than a syrupy one. Jasmine and frangipani step in quickly, their yellow-flower lactones folding into the wood to create a solar, beach-shade effect that feels more coconut-adjacent than overtly tropical. Pink pepper provides a brief, rosy sparkle at the edges, while benzoin and honey thicken the base, turning the mid-stage into a supple ambered ribbon that hugs close to skin. Over hours the florals recede, leaving a soft-spiced, honeyed sandalwood that smells like sun-warmed skin after the sunscreen has faded. Projection stays within arm’s reach, making it office-safe yet quietly sensual. It thrives in spring and fall when its lactonic warmth can breathe without overheating, and works especially well for travel or casual date settings where intimacy matters more than announcement.
Scent twins
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