Secrets d'Essences - Vanille Noire
Vanille Noire opens on a quick mandarin before stepping back to let the vanillas take over.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 14 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.
- Vanilla90
- Soft Spicy50
- Amber50
- Honey
The note pyramid
- Mandarin Orange
- Tahitian Vanilla
- Ugandan Vanilla
- Orange Blossom
- Mimosa
By the editors · 2 min readVanille Noire opens on a quick mandarin before stepping back to let the vanillas take over. The heart is the story: Tahitian and Ugandan vanilla — two distinct origins — running alongside mimosa and orange blossom. The result is a vanilla that reads as floral rather than purely gourmand: luminous, warm, and textured with genuine variation between the vanilla strains.
Bourbon vanilla anchors the base alongside cedar, pulling the warmth into a slightly more resinous register. This is a well-constructed vanilla for those who find single-extract vanilla extracts dull — the multiple-origin sourcing adds real complexity. Long-wearing and intimate, best in cool weather when its warmth earns its keep.
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.
