Vétiver Fatal
Lemon and bergamot open with the bright, crystalline lift typical of an Atelier Cologne, the citrus rendered juicy and slightly bitter rather than candied.
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.
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- Aromatic50
- Aquatic50
- Ozonic
The note pyramid
- Vetiver
- Plum
- Orange Blossom
- Lemon
- Bergamot
By the editors · 2 min readLemon and bergamot open with the bright, crystalline lift typical of an Atelier Cologne, the citrus rendered juicy and slightly bitter rather than candied. There's an immediate sense of freshly washed daylight.
Orange blossom emerges quickly, kept clean and slightly green rather than indolic or honeyed, while plum tucks in beneath as a soft fruity backdrop that adds roundness without sweetness. The composition feels well-edited rather than dense.
Vetiver carries the dry-down, earthy and rooty with a faint smokiness that gives the otherwise sunny opening its grown-up edge. The overall character is bright at first, dirtier and more grounded by the end, a crisp citrus that ages into something more contemplative across cooler-weather daytime wear.
Scent twins
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