Very Sexy Now 2016
Very Sexy Now 2016 was the year Victoria's Secret pushed the franchise toward a beach-vacation script.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Vanilla60
- Salty50
- Caramel30
The note pyramid
- Coconut
- Fruity Notes
- Pink Lotus
- White Musk
- Sand Accord
By the editors · 2 min readVery Sexy Now 2016 was the year Victoria's Secret pushed the franchise toward a beach-vacation script. Coconut nectar opens it — sweetened, almost piña-colada in tone — wrapped in unspecified tropical fruit that reads more like a smoothie than a single ingredient.
The heart introduces pink lotus, a cleaner, more aquatic floral than the line's usual orchid-jasmine choices. It calms the sugar without quite balancing it. The base is where things get interesting: a 'sand accord' — that warm-mineral, salty-skin idea that tropical fragrances borrow from suntan oil — alongside vanilla and white musk.
The finish is closer to skin-and-coconut than to perfume. It's overtly aimed at summer weather and evening wear; it dies fast in cold and falls apart fast on dry skin. Best in heat, on shoulders, after sunset.
Scent twins
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