The Majestic Vetiver
Cardamom crackles atop a splash of bitter grapefruit, the spice searing the citrus oils and turning them metallic within minutes.
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.
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Basil
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Oud
- Vetiver
- Labdanum
- Suede
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom crackles atop a splash of bitter grapefruit, the spice searing the citrus oils and turning them metallic within minutes. Basil surges in, green and camphoraceous, stretching the top into an aromatic sting that scours the nose before it collapses. Vetiver arrives early, dry grass and smoke braided with labdanum’s molten resin; the accord feels like sun-baked earth split by a resinous tar vein. Oud sits low, a medicinal leather strip stitched to sueded skin, its barnyard facets kept on a short leash by the cool mineral vetiver. Hours later the grapefruit rind reappears, now candied by labdanum and rubbed against the suede, projecting a quiet smoky haze that clings inside shirt cuffs. Sillage stays arm-length, perfect for cool spring evenings or air-conditioned offices.
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.
