Vetiver Terra
Vetiver Terra opens with bergamot and tarragon alongside lavender, giving a herbal-aromatic impression before the heart's vetiver takes hold.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 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.
- Earthy70
- Aromatic60
- Tobacco60
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Tarragon
- Lavender
- Bergamot
- Vetiver
- Raspberry
- Jasmine
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver Terra opens with bergamot and tarragon alongside lavender, giving a herbal-aromatic impression before the heart's vetiver takes hold. The vetiver is earthy and smoky without being harsh, and jasmine adds a floral softness that prevents it from reading as purely green.
The base is rich: tobacco, oakmoss, and patchouli build a dark, resinous depth, while caramel and tonka bean introduce a sweetness that balances the earthier elements. Cedar extends the woody structure cleanly. It's a composition that moves from cool-herbal to warm-earthy across its arc.
Ambery, slightly sweet, and grounded in real soil, this suits the cooler months best.
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.
