Oriental Noir
Vetiver opens dry and smoky, its earthy root character sharpened by Virginia cedar’s pencil-shavings edge.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 8 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.
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Balsamic50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Virginia Cedar
- Incense
- Vanilla
- Tonka Bean
- Benzoin
By the editors · 2 min readVetiver opens dry and smoky, its earthy root character sharpened by Virginia cedar’s pencil-shavings edge. The heart folds incense smoke into creamy vanilla, turning the woody start resinous and slightly sweet while benzoin’s almond facet blooms underneath. Tonka bean amplifies the vanilla’s coumarin softness, letting amber pool as a warm, diffusive glow that erases the earlier smoke. On skin the composition stays close, a skin-hugging ember that shifts from cedar crackle to powdered sugar amber over six hours. Projection stays intimate, perfect for office or fall evenings when you want warmth without announcement.
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.