Vendetta Donna
A 1991 Valentino launch in the grand Italian floral oriental tradition, Vendetta Donna opens with plum and peach alongside bergamot and orange blossom — immediately lush and fruit-forward, with none of the restraint that would define the decade's close.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 21 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.
- Tuberose80
- Floral70
- Rose65
- Vanilla
The note pyramid
- Plum
- Peach
- Orange Blossom
- Bergamot
- Tuberose
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readA 1991 Valentino launch in the grand Italian floral oriental tradition, Vendetta Donna opens with plum and peach alongside bergamot and orange blossom — immediately lush and fruit-forward, with none of the restraint that would define the decade's close. The heart is an extravagant white-floral statement: tuberose, jasmine, ylang-ylang, narcissus, heliotrope, honey, and rose layered to the point of saturation.
The base sustains the drama. Tonka, vanilla, sandalwood, benzoin, amber, patchouli, vetiver, cedar, and musk build a warm, resinous drydown that softens without ever relenting. Sillage is generous, longevity substantial. This is a fragrance that announces itself and stays — a dressed evening scent for those who find the maximalist early-90s Italian fashion aesthetic genuinely compelling.
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.
