Le Vetiver
Mint and lavender arrive together at the opening, clean and slightly medicinal, with the lavender carrying a quiet herbal edge rather than a floral sweetness.
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.
- Lavender70
- Patchouli60
- Herbal50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Mint
- Lavender
- Vetiver
- Patchouli
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readMint and lavender arrive together at the opening, clean and slightly medicinal, with the lavender carrying a quiet herbal edge rather than a floral sweetness. The composition moves quickly toward its core: vetiver dominates the heart, dry and rooty, with patchouli lending a grounding earthiness that keeps things grounded rather than airy.
Musk settles in at the base without adding much sweetness, instead reinforcing the cool, smoky register of the vetiver. The overall character is sparse and direct — this reads like a well-defined aromatic-earthy vetiver study, more functional than romantic, suited to cooler temperatures where its clean austerity feels deliberate rather than bare.
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.
