Vanilla Vice
Almond opens with a toasted, slightly bitter nuttiness that feels more like crushed shells than marzipan.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Nutty90
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Almond
- Incense
- Heliotrope
- Suede
- Tonka Bean
- Ambergris
By the editors · 2 min readAlmond opens with a toasted, slightly bitter nuttiness that feels more like crushed shells than marzipan. Within minutes incense smoke coils through, drying the almond and lifting the suede into a soft, grey leather accord while heliotrope adds a faintly powdery, cherry-tinged halo. Tonka folds the heart’s smoke into a creamy, hay-sweet base, letting ambergris salt the Madagascar vanilla so the dry-down reads as dry tobacco-vanilla rather than dessert sweetness. Projection stays arm-length for six hours before collapsing to a skin-whisper of blond wood and salted caramel. Cool evenings and smart-casual offices suit its restrained gourmand-leather balance.
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.
