Vétiver
La Collection Couturier Parfumeur Vétiver opens with the bright citrus snap of Sicilian grapefruit, which recedes quickly to expose a surprising mid-note of roasted robusta coffee — bitter, earthy, and lightly smoky.
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.
- Earthy85
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Tobacco
The note pyramid
- Sicilian Grapefruit
- South American Robusta Coffee
- Haitian Vetiver
- Grapefruit
- Coffee
By the editors · 2 min readLa Collection Couturier Parfumeur Vétiver opens with the bright citrus snap of Sicilian grapefruit, which recedes quickly to expose a surprising mid-note of roasted robusta coffee — bitter, earthy, and lightly smoky. From there, Haitian vetiver takes over the base with its clean, earthy-woody character and subtle soil-and-cedar undertones.
This is an exercise in radical minimalism: three ingredients, each clearly articulated, no blending agents to soften the transitions. It wears close to the skin and rewards patience. The structure is more composition than cloud — a fragrance for someone comfortable with deliberate restraint and who wears scent as a private matter.
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.
