My Shiny Vanilla 2022
My Shiny Vanilla opens on a clean, almost transparent vanilla — not the dense, resinous kind but something airier, like vanilla stirred into warm milk.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 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.
- Yellow Floral60
- Soft Spicy50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic
The note pyramid
- Vanilla
- Orchid
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Sandalwood
- Bourbon Vanilla
By the editors · 2 min readMy Shiny Vanilla opens on a clean, almost transparent vanilla — not the dense, resinous kind but something airier, like vanilla stirred into warm milk. Orchid and ylang-ylang sit underneath, lending a faintly creamy floral texture without fully asserting themselves.
As it develops, jasmine and ylang-ylang push forward slightly, giving the heart a yellow-floral warmth that keeps it from feeling purely gourmand. Labdanum and bourbon vanilla in the base deepen the composition, adding a soft resinous thickness that anchors the florals.
Sandalwood smooths the base into a creamy, skin-close drydown. The result is warm and wearable, leaning sweet without excess, best suited to cooler weather.
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.
