Vanilla Violet Orchid
The opening reads as generic sweetness — a soft, slightly sugary haze without any specific fruit or note announcing itself.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Vanilla70
- Lactonic50
- Powdery50
- Floral
The note pyramid
- Sweet Notes
- Orchid
- Floral Notes
- Vanilla
- Woodsy Notes
By the editors · 2 min readThe opening reads as generic sweetness — a soft, slightly sugary haze without any specific fruit or note announcing itself. It sets a tone rather than making a statement.
The orchid heart is conceptual: orchids don't actually smell like much, so what arrives is a soft floral abstraction, the perfumer's idea of velvet petals more than any literal flower. Vanilla and woody notes in the base carry most of the structure — the vanilla creamy and unboozy, the wood dry enough to keep the whole thing from collapsing into dessert. It's a simple, sweet floral built for easy wear; the impression registers as cozy rather than complex, sticking close to skin without making demands.
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.
