Vetyver
Bergamot opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly picks up nutmeg's dry, peppery warmth, creating a crisp, aromatic flash.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 9 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.
- Fresh50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Sandalwood
- Musk
- Sandalwood
- Vetiver
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readBergamot opens with a bright, slightly bitter citrus edge that quickly picks up nutmeg's dry, peppery warmth, creating a crisp, aromatic flash. The heart is empty on paper, so the transition lands straight on a base where vetiver takes over, delivering cool, rooty grass stalks still damp with earth, while sandalwood smooths the edges with creamy, blond wood. Musk settles underneath, adding clean skin-like warmth that keeps the vetiver from turning too raw or stalky. Wear it an hour and the citrus burns off, leaving a quiet, woody-musk halo that sits close but persists. Projection stays office-polite, stretching maybe arm's length for three hours before becoming a skin scent. Cool spring mornings and early fall afternoons fit best; it behaves like a refined everyday signature for people who want vetiver without smoke or soap.
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.




