Series 4: Cologne - Vettiveru
Series 4 is the Cologne set, and Vettiveru (2002) is the woody anchor.
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.
- Earthy75
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Citrus
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- White Pepper
- Pink Pepper
- Cedar
- Cardamom
By the editors · 2 min readSeries 4 is the Cologne set, and Vettiveru (2002) is the woody anchor. The opening is the most cologne-classical move in the set: neroli over bergamot, bright and slightly bitter, a clean Mediterranean splash.
The middle is where it diverges. Rather than the usual herbal-aromatic heart, Vettiveru pulls in white pepper, cardamom, and clove with cedar and a touch of jasmine — closer to a Japanese spice cabinet than a French one. The drydown is the namesake: vetiver and musk, cool and grassy, with the spices still humming. It reads as a cologne with weight — sheer enough for warm weather but with enough vetiver shadow to last into evening.
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.
