Vetiveria Animalis
Cinnamon opens Vetiveria Animalis dry and crackling, its barky heat pulling vetiver’s rooty smoke into immediate focus while plum adds a bruised-purple sweetness that keeps the top from turning acrid.
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The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 6 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.
- Animalic90
- Woody70
- Cinnamon60
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Cinnamon
- Vetiver
- Plum
- Civet
- Lily of the Valley
- Damask Rose
- Narcissus
By the editors · 2 min readCinnamon opens Vetiveria Animalis dry and crackling, its barky heat pulling vetiver’s rooty smoke into immediate focus while plum adds a bruised-purple sweetness that keeps the top from turning acrid. Civet arrives early, musky and warm, stitching the cinnamon to the heart’s white-floral trio—lily of the valley’s watery green, rose’s spiced petals, narcissus’s leathery pollen—so the accord reads as damp earth strewn with crushed blossoms. Sandalwood and ambergris soften the transition, letting castoreum’s beaver-fur musk ride on oakmoss’s cool lichen until patchouli darkens everything into a bitter chocolate hum. After two hours the fur-animal note relaxes into a suede-like skin imprint that smells of clove-tainted seawater and old library leather. Moderate sillage stays within arm’s length; cool fall nights or a crowded jazz club suit its shadowy presence.
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.



