Allende
Allende's structure is transparent from the first wear: Madagascar vanilla appears at every layer, from the floral opening where it meets magnolia through the cocoa-warmed heart to the bare drydown.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 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.
- Vanilla95
- Chocolate70
- Warm Spicy50
- Lactonic
The note pyramid
- Magnolia
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Madagascar Vanilla
- Cocoa
- Madagascar Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readAllende's structure is transparent from the first wear: Madagascar vanilla appears at every layer, from the floral opening where it meets magnolia through the cocoa-warmed heart to the bare drydown. Magnolia contributes a clean, slightly watery lift that prevents the opening from turning heavy; cocoa grounds the mid-layer without adding sweetness beyond what vanilla already provides. Reviewers detect sandalwood and benzoin in the later dry phase, lending a resinous warmth Xerjoff doesn't formally list. What animates Allende is textural rather than compositional — the same primary ingredient read through a floral lens, then a darker one, then on its own. The effect is quiet, deliberate, and singular.
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.
