Geranium Balsamic Note
Cedar opens dry and splinter-sharp, carving immediate vertical lines through the composition.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 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.
- Earthy60
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Cedar
- Vetiver
- Cedar
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readCedar opens dry and splinter-sharp, carving immediate vertical lines through the composition. Vetiver arrives seconds later, its cool rooty bitterness pulling the cedar into damp soil, turning the scent from sawdust to living tree. The two woods interlock for hours, cedar keeping the structure rigid while vetiver loosens it with mild green smoke. No top notes means the fragrance lands fully formed; what changes is texture, as the cedar loses paper-like dust and the vetiver sheds muddy edges to reveal a clean, slightly salty skin accent. Projection stays within handshake distance, making it an unobtrusive office choice for cool spring or rainy summer days. Longevity is modest, fading to a woody skin whisper after five hours.
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.