Vetiver Forte
Cardamom, bergamot and nutmeg spark a bright-green heat that crackles for the first ten minutes.
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.
- Herbal50
- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Cardamom
- Bergamot
- Nutmeg
- Sage
- Lavender
- Tobacco
By the editors · 2 min readCardamom, bergamot and nutmeg spark a bright-green heat that crackles for the first ten minutes. Sage and lavender slide in next, cooling the spice while adding a clean, slightly camphor lift; together they bend the composition toward barbershop territory. Vetiver arrives dry and rooty, tethering the herbs to a base of guaiac wood whose quiet smoke curls around the tobacco leaf, turning the scent nut-brown and softly leathery. The dry-down stays close, a skin-level hum of woody resins with a faint sweet ash trail. Projection sits within handshake range for six hours, then settles to a whisper. Cool spring evenings, smart-casual offices or weekend travel fit its polite, well-groomed presence.
Scent twins
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