Vétiver Extraordinaire
Vétiver Extraordinaire is exactly what its title claims: an intensified study of a single material, built around a concentration of 25% pure Haitian vetiver oil.
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.
- Vetiver90
- Oakmoss50
- Cedar45
- Incense40
- Black Pepper40
By the editors · 2 min readVétiver Extraordinaire is exactly what its title claims: an intensified study of a single material, built around a concentration of 25% pure Haitian vetiver oil. Dominique Ropion opens with bitter orange, bergamot, caraway, cardamom, and pepper — a dry, spiced citrus that functions as a brief prologue before vetiver takes absolute command of the heart. There it meets licorice, cloves, and incense, adding facets rather than softening the root.
The base — cedar, oakmoss, sandalwood, myrrh, musk, and ambrette — deepens things further without shifting the center of gravity. This is a reference-class vetiver fragrance: earthy, complex, unhurried. For those who understand what vetiver actually is rather than what they imagine it might be.
