Vanilla Oud
The opening is a juicy red apple set against the metallic warmth of saffron and a brisk bergamot.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 17 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Apple
- Saffron
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Saffron
- Violet
- Rose
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening is a juicy red apple set against the metallic warmth of saffron and a brisk bergamot. Saffron stays present through the first hour, lending a leathery, slightly medicinal hum.
The heart layers jasmine, violet, and rose over the lingering saffron, with the florals reading dusky and faintly powdered rather than fresh. The composition is built around contrast — fruity sparkle against dry spice.
The drydown is where the name lands. Caramel surges forward, deep and almost burnt, knitted to vanilla and tonka with a smoky guaiac wood and patchouli underneath. A discreet oud-adjacent woodiness lingers but never dominates. The overall character is a sweet, dense gourmand-amber with a polished woody spine, pitched for cold-weather evenings.
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.
