78 Vintage Green
A crisp bergamot opening gives way almost immediately to a soft haze of magnolia and fig, the latter lending a milky-green quality rather than anything overtly sweet.
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.
- Bergamot45
- Vetiver40
- Cedar35
- Fig Leaf35
- Jasmine30
By the editors · 2 min readA crisp bergamot opening gives way almost immediately to a soft haze of magnolia and fig, the latter lending a milky-green quality rather than anything overtly sweet. The florals here feel filtered through gauze—present but never loud, with jasmine adding just enough indolic warmth to keep the composition from turning too soapy.
As it settles, vetiver and cedar emerge with surprising clarity, grounding the white flowers in something earthy and faintly bitter. The musk in the base is clean without being detergent-like, holding everything in a soft focus that feels more 1990s minimalism than vintage in the classical sense.
This wears close to the skin and fades relatively quickly, making it better suited to someone looking for an unobtrusive daily scent than a statement fragrance. It's polite, green-tinged, and oddly nostalgic for a certain kind of understated American style.
